🌿Good Bones🌿

🌿Good Bones🌿

🌺Life is short,

though I keep this from my children.
Life is short,

and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious,

ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children.

The world is at least fifty percent terrible,

and that’s a conservative estimate,

though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake.

Life is short and the world is at least half terrible,

and for every kind stranger,

there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children.

I am trying to sell them the world.

Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole,

chirps on about good bones:

This place could be beautiful,
right?

You could make this place beautiful.🌺✨🌺