Here's Glenn

Here’s Glenn

“Clarity comes from looking inside your own heart.

Who looks inward first dreams, then awakes.”

--Carl Jung.

Glenn,

consider this

an intervention,

and understand that you

are a difficult person to counsel.

Like other Geminis,

you have a strong opinion

on everything, and you

express yourself

with a heightened passion.

You are quick to anger,

your version of 

an angry face,

and an angry voice

intimidates people.

Remember that employer who said,

You can’t help yourself--you intimidate

everyone. You even intimidate me,

and I own the damn place.

There are people,

friends and family,

who fear you,

but still like you,

even love you;

yet you’re not a bully.

So you are a rare bird,

a red Cardinal midst

a murder of Crows.

You used to force-feed

your opinions and ideas,

running roughshod

over other’s views.

To your credit, presently

you have become a better listener.

You have always had problems

with authority, perpetually balancing

insubordination with excellent work ethic.

You are a screaming liberal, And you

present yourself as a blue-collar intellectual,

always taking the side of your fellows,

which has prevented you from rising in the

ranks. 

Your decade as a professional actor was not

wasted, but real success eluded you because

you got in your own way. You tend to exhaust

those around you with your unfiltered

enthusiasm, and overbearing personality. Yes,

you are smart, but MENSA has never tried to

recruit you.

You can be generous to a fault, and then flip

to being a sarcastic hard-ass. You have always

been a malcontent, a loose canon, and your

superiors have had to struggle to cope with you.

On the positive side, it is inspiring to witness

over many years how you manage despite your

disability. You seem to still extract joy within

your endeavors, and find purpose in your many

pursuits. Keep channeling your rage into your

creative and artistic spheres. In can be said

that you have made your mark in this world;

continue to do so.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub MTB