Simple Songs That Aren'T Simple Poem by Sam Byron

1
I praise myself, and I compliment myself
Because if I didn’t it would never get done
My goals are set for myself,
My life I live for myself.

When I get this done, I shall not know
Whether I am green or I am seasoned,
If I am silly or I am scholarly
Time will only tell.

2
You know it’s funny
How the things,
You don’t think
Matter enough
Matter the most.

What’s even funnier
Is that you
Never realize it
Until it’s gone.

3
Life is
More important
Than we think it
To be
Yet,
We never take
The time
To realize it.

4
Little things
Like our job
That used to give
Us pleasure
Now only
Seems to anger us

We got to far behind
And worry too much
All the while worrying to little
The cycle never stops.
Therefore
My biggest smile
Couldn’t hide my despair
At the spring of hope that
No longer shows itself.

5
We insist on changing our ways
But, that is something we aren’t yet
Ready to do.

6
Our likes and dislikes clash
Like oil and water.
As much as we want to make them disappear and blend
They are still present,
That is much misery, caused in the world
Ambition can destroy or save
But, time will only tell.

We must do what we ought
Because it is our duty
But, what we ought to do is what
We don’t know

7
Divorce is yet
Another form of torture
Not only does it
Tear apart your family

It also
Makes the
Everyday life
A constant struggle.

8
What used to be
A spanking
Is now cause
For a lawsuit

9
Freelancing
Is no longer free
And
Life is
The worst song
I’ve ever heard

10
Every day men
Give their lives
And everyday
A new heir is born.

Some dance their way through life,
While others
Seem to meander along
Time is a seldom thing to waste
Yet,
Wasted it often it
is.

11
Love comes in waves
And it seems to go
As it pleases
For the currents of life
Often tears it apart.

So
When you have it
Don’t let it go
Because forever
Will it be lost
For the first
Is your one
And true
No matter
How many more
Waves come along.

12
Which is funny
Considering fisherman
Ride the waves
As often as they come.

Out to sea
Where their cries
Cannot
Be heard.

13
In life things happen
Some good some bad

We are all sandpaper,
We are all ice cream,
No one is all one of the same,
The acid tongue is quick to burn
While the reticent are faster to grudge.


We love and we hate,
We burn and we grudge,
We are one and the same
Yet we are different

You have all
Thought as I am
Thinking
You have all
Done as I am
Doing

As I flirt
With the choices
God has given me
I realize
This broken path
Called life has
Been traveled many times

14
Kindness we don’t show for, it is seldom returned
The heart has eyes the brain doesn’t see through
Which is why love never works
The choice of the heart is often muffled
By that engine of the brain

15
I’m going to be
The boss,
When it comes to my life
For dependence isn’t a choice


16
Family isn’t there
To be discarded
Like a rag doll,
For you only have one.

17
Why? How? When? Where?
Are all questions we must ask
In order to get answers.
Although,
Answers are often worse than wondering.

Wondering makes a good scientist,
And pressure makes or breaks their careers
Just as it does everyone else.