Author Archive for: Bruce Stachenfeld

Entries by Bruce Stachenfeld

Pretty and Plain

Only pretty girls get to sit at the bar I see this as I sit from afar It’s just not fair to not be anointed With enough good looks to be so appointed For men to chase to be their mate. Oh, how sad a plain girls fate In her heart, she may offer so […]

Poem For A Real Man

It’s pitch black outside, but I hear the surf on the shore It’s quite a cold January; going out would be poor In my cozy beach house a fire is roaring A cliché it is how the weather I’m ignoring A book in my lap and I’ve the place all alone I can do what […]

No Reply

Did you ever have that feeling That sends your senses reeling And the more you do reflection Still your life has no direction. The most fearful word is “why“ As it’s the cause of why you try But if there’s no answer to that question It causes intellectual indigestion. Pause….. Maybe this way of thinking […]

My Demons Come At Night

The sun is out and it’s time to revel Nothing to fear – no thoughts of the devil But now today’s ending – the sun‘s coming down My uplifted smiles turn into a frown. There’s naught going wrong – all things seem just fine But now look at the clock – it’s near half past […]

Last Call

I’m at the bar with so many friends It’ll be a great night that never ends. We drink and drink and drink some more One of my buddies is stretched out on the floor One by one they peel away And I see that I’m the to stay My first thought is I that should […]

It’s Your Job

There are more and more days that I hate my work. I go through the motions and feel like a jerk. Why oh why do I do what I do? I’m really good at it and that is true. But it’s just no fun is my despair My life sucks and it’s just not fair […]

It Was So Very Long Ago

Once, as counselor I took my client’s side The matter was important so I could not let the issue slide But the other party was much offended Perhaps he thought his honor was contended Words were exchanged and the battle escalated With the result being a man who me hated What it was caused the […]

It Sucks Is What Makes It Great

It sucks is what makes it great He said as he contemplated his fate All the world is barren and bleak I am down in the well, now what should I seek Surveying now the surrounding gloom This surely is an awful doom At the bottom of this terrible well There is no further fall […]

Morality versus Loyalty

This is something that seems so obvious at first, but when you peel away the onion it gets harder and harder.  Here goes…   You are in a bar (let’s say) with your best friend.  Your best friend – wrongfully – starts a fight.  Others join in and your friend is getting his butt kicked.  […]

Indifference

I am but a splintered boat broken on the rocky shoreline of her indifference  Even after the wooden wreckage strews about me, bobbing up and down, I still look to shore forlorn hope of rescue  But it is not to come, as slowly I sink beneath the waves – for my last look our eyes […]