Writing Wednesday: Guest Writer!

Yes, I have a guest writer today.  It's my cousin and fellow poet, Nathan Jordan.  Here is his poem:

Nathan Jordan

Gigantic Imagination-Itty Bitty Reality

We are born into this world

Kicking and screaming

Looking only for milk and warmth

Not caring about morality

Only our own whims to satisfy

We grow up and rebel against the world

It won’t give us what we want

Now we want metaphoric milk and warmth

And if reality won’t provide it

We’ll cry and cry until we get what we want

Or we’ll turn to drugs and alcohol to soothe ourselves

And that’s where most of us stop growing

We continue throughout life demanding

Shaking our fist at the world

Reading our list of requirements

Cutting those off who don’t agree

Not stopping to realize that everyone else

Is doing the same thing.

And then a fortunate few stumble on the truth

Begin to understand their true size in reality

A grain of salt

A piece of sand

That’s right size

This big huge colossal universe

Doesn’t care about what we demand

It only gives us what we need

And it’s up to us to realize

That that’s all we should ever want.

Nathan Jordan is accountant by day and lives in T-Town with his lovely wife Rachel, and son Rylan. A bit of a joker, Nathan also has a serious side.  He enjoys film, singing, playing guitar, and is proud of his Italian heritage.