Best Matty Poems

This feeling overwhelms me.
I'm unsure what to do.
The more I try to fix things,
The clearer it becomes....

I cannot make it better.
I can't change the past.

I cannot make you love me,
And yet I can't turn my back.

I lay here feeling unattractive, unwanted, And unloved; 
but my...

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Out of the darkness
a small figure appeared
dirty, hungry and cold
a tiny puppy was here

He looked so cute
with those big brown eyes
shivering and shaking
in his dirty disquise

Looking around
for his owner somewhere
I put him in my hat
he fit perfect in there

He smelled so bad
from the place he...

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(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty Mattel Doll (circa mid 1960's) 
meant the webbed wide world...

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While meditating earlier today,
a flashback leapt
     clear for me to assay,
those ever receding

     early boyhood daze,
     now subsumed within fifty,
plus nine shades of gray
blissfully innocent naivety,

     (though blessed) no...

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