Just Because Simon Says Do I Have to? (And #OctPoWriMo Poem) Day 9/31

I need to get a couple poems from my notebook to the keyboard. Granny (that's me!) is trying some new strategies to actually do so while watching Jaxon. He's playing happily right now, so I'm doing what I can in this precise moment and what I realized, as I wrote is this: my lament fits with the theme.

I could have a whole different poem in the back of my head!

Anyway - on with today's words:

Just because

Simon says

I don’t have to

but I want to

so I will

and the good part

the best part is

almost always

(yes, almost always)

I feel better

after I do

even what I thought

I didn’t want

to do

 

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This poem was borne from a prompt at OctPoWriMo, a month long writing challenge. 31 poems in 31 Days. You may still join... in fact, I hope you will.

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Comments

[Fida]

I love the twist with Simon says.

[Considerer]

I'm glad you did it anyway :)

[Anna Stewart]

Defy Simon! Yes! I always sucked at that hame anyway! I liked the reference to the game...and the sentiment. I want to so I will. I sometimes get into the have tos when it really is a choice...so much better to own it.