Day 8 of Poetry Month

Back to the Poetry school prompts.

Change

1.

What is change?

Disruption.

Upsetting.

Not what was before.

Change is coming

And I cannot sleep.

I cannot stop it,

Nor do I want to,

But neither am I happy.

It’s upsetting.

Change helps us grow.

Change makes us better.

I want to accept change,

But it means I’m not in control

And I love control.

So I try to accept change.

I will make statements & decisions, perform actions & tasks

That will seem illogical

But this is how I cope—

With change.

2.

I need there to be a plan,

A plan for the future.

So I know what’s going to happen,

Where I’m going,

Where you’re going.

You may have plans but I don’t know them so that makes me anxious.

I don’t need the whole plan,

I just need to know that there is 1.

I just need to know you’re ready for change,

‘Cause the only thing that’s constant in this world is

Change.

© Catherine Woods 2017