Skeptical
by Kristie Demers
Two sides to everything,
More like twenty-five.
“be everything you can be”
What’s that supposed to mean?
Be famous and make more money
So the Paparazzi assemble.
Make a name for yourself
On the stars down in Hollywood square.
Two ways to success; fame or money.
More like twenty-five.
Holding a door,
Recycling a bottle,
A teacher giving a student hope,
Talking a friend out of their woes,
Twenty-one more ways to be everything you can.
Like rescuing a child from a broken home,
Paying a visit to a forgotten friend,
Sending a rose to your widowed grandmother
Or inviting that straggler in from the cold.
Countless ways to change the world.
Success. Fame. Money;
Can’t measure the person you are.
Two sides to everything, more like twenty-five.