Poetry

So my buddy Jeanette is a wonderful songwriter, previously in the band No Ma'am and soon to be in a new one I'm sure. She likes to talk about why philosophy is interesting, but sometimes it's better to have a philosophy of your own instead of someone named Nietzshce or Plato. Or maybe I like to make her talk about that. I dunno.

Little did I know she also aspires to be a poetry/short story writer. Here's one of her poems:

SHIELDED
There are places in this world that are safe and free
As real as it gets right around the corner, it lets you feel.
Gives you the opportunity.
Other places are dangerous and guarded, dead as the sea
with the smash of glass
they force you to feel what’s really real.

There are people in this world who are open and giving.
Light pours out and warms everyone that surrounds,
even those with cold dark souls.
Black sea souls that want to bring you down,
cut you down to their size.

Teaching you Buddah Sahfa lessons,
learning from unexpected situations.
There are no insignificant people,
unless everyone is insignificant.
Everything is meaningful,
unless everything is meaningless.
Are there any wholly useless encounters?