Red Lobster Afternoon

Yesterday i was enroute to the Santa Ana Amtrak Station to being the trainophile that I am to take a short rail ride to San Juan Capistrano to eat a late lunch at Trevor's at the Tracks but soon realized I would not make my planned trained so stopped at the Red Lobster. My waitress was a very young Heather who was working two jobs and was just getting ready to go off station. She is an amateur artist, quite excellent and before we knew it I was relating to her about my blogs and poetry and she was showing me pictures of her paintings on her phone. While talking and listening to her this poem came to me which i read to her and told her I would post it. I hope she pursues an artistic career as the world will be a better place. Nice restaurant but if you like lobster that is taken live out a tank, go to Little Saigon--much cheaper!

Heather

Too often our youth are pushed into the higher education slot

Devoid of passion, going through the motions, praying their minds will not rot

A degree to but frame and to put on a wall

While the passion for life is in a complete stall

When the creative side of the brain rules

Who would doubt that artistic creativity cannot be taught in school

But like poets too often artists barely make a living wage

No wonder parents want a daughter to change the career page

But without passion, a creative soul chained to a lifeless path

Each day further and further from her dreams of a golden craft

Is doomed to most certainly fail

Her creative spirit wallowing in a dismal academic jail

Chained by strong steel links of an unforgiving tether

Sunshine replaced by the dark clouds of inclement weather

Waiting like a lobster for the King Crab to show her how to molt

Knowing that even with access a blog for today to the art she cannot bolt

There will come a day when parents fear of failure will relent

We will see her paintings on display and buying them will be money well spent

                                                            April 25, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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