Bumblebee

I'm posting two versions of a poem that I originally wrote when I was teaching.

Version One: As the music teacher, I often got dumped upon and treated as less than equal by some classroom teachers and administrators. On this particular day, someone made their lack of communication my emergency--and it wasn't the first, or last, time they'd done it.

Bumblebee
10/05/04

We're busy.
Life is busy.
Everything is busy.
Busy, busy, busy!

But how hard is it,
Is it that hard?
To communicate,
share,
discuss,
or explain,
Expectations,
needs,
wants,
desires,
and to ask for help
In advance
not on demand,
not making lack of communication
an urgent problem?

We're busy.
Life is busy.
Everything is busy.
Busy, busy, busy!

I guess we should just rename ourselves
Bumblebees.

Version Two: Because I, myself, find myself overly busy right now, this poem came to mind as I thought about what to post for work today. What should have been a quick post has ended up taking more time than planned because of the rewrite...but, hey...at least this one isn't angry and has a somewhat positive message :-).

We're busy.
Life is busy.
Everything is busy.
Busy, busy, busy!

But we should never forget
Never ever forget
To communicate, share, discuss, and explain,
Expectations, needs, wants, desires, Christ
And to ask for help when we need it,
In advance,
Not on demand, and
Not making lack of communicationan or planning an urgent problem
for those around us.

We're busy.
Life is busy.
Everything is busy.
Busy, busy, busy!

Maybe we should just rename ourselves
Bumblebees?