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Jo de Guzman May 2014
I woke up feeling grounded on a board game
it seems like I’m just one of those chess pieces
waiting for a command for me to take a move
or maybe I am the player
     -- and death is my opponent
I’m losing. few choices of moves left.
what do you expect?
   a dummie playing a game
       a game for masters
            and not for folks like me
he’s beating all my guards down
what am I going to do?
I’m near to checkmate
        death is almost on the win
I know what awaits me
there’s no way to escape
      prolonging the game
            is my only chance
                  to live.
C F Jan 2022
I was once left in charge of a class of
Literally 20 2-3 year olds.

They were waking up from nap time.
A nap time they went to bed with a
Whole different teacher
Who then asked me
as a favour
To sub for another sub.

I was a dummie.
Huge dummie is more appropriate.

I was 23 years old,
0 children of my own.
A sister in law recently had a kid,
But he was like 6 months old.

I began asking each kid who they were,
Who their sleeping buddy was
And suddenly this easy thing,
It was so difficult.

They didn't know who tf I was,
I didn't know them.

So past me, bless her,
She panicked and did some quick calculations.
She choose to ask the
50 year old teacher across the hall,
For help!

That gal came in like a fecking wrecking ball
A classy one at that.

One shout of "GET UP. PACK YOUR MAT AND SIT."
and past me?
I just bowed my head and said thank you
And I ran out like my rear was on fire.

Bless past me.
Delton Peele Aug 2021
Delicately
We
Don ourselves in eloquence especially
In the presence
Of those
Beautiful just out of reach
Ones which without effort
weaken the knees.
And decimate
Vocabularies...
And any
Type of grammatically
Rehearsed whimsical
Really cool stuff we wanted to say
Making me
Red faced ..and dumb dummie looking
Super concetratie
and confuse  ed staring into outer spaces
Feeling like a peasant....stamering
Discombobulated.eddedeeddedd
Ya know what
What ever

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