KEITH BURKHOLDER - POEMS

​Keith Burkholder has been published in Creative Juices, Sol Magazine, Trellis Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Journal, New Delta Review, Poetry Quarterly, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Birmingham Arts Journal.  He has a bachelor's degree in statistics with a minor in mathematics from SUNY at Buffalo (UB).

​Avoiding the cracks

​He has OCD,
He walks to avoid cracks,
In the sidewalk and street,
Weird as this sounds,
This is how it for him,
The world is a unique place,
He understands this well,
His mind works oddly,
In ways he only understands,
People are what they are,
They can be nice,
Or not nice at all,
This is up to the person at hand,
For he continues forward,
With his thoughts,
For this is his OCD,
Tomorrow is a new day,
This is how it will go as time passes on.

Facebook is like fantasy land

If you think about this,
It is true,
No one is that nice in real life,
Facebook is a fantasy,
People suddenly nice,
And even religious,
They think false gods exist,
These people were bad at one time,
Now they have found God,
When there isn't one,
I can go on and on,
No one is that nice,
I mean no one,
Believe what you want,
This is how social media is,
And will always be,
Take care,
And carry forward.
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​If you think about it we really don't have many friends or any at all

​Facebook is fantasy land,
It really is,
No one life has over a 1,000 friends,
I mean no one,
In life, one is lucky to a great friend or two,
I mean genuine friends,
Real friends are hard to come by,
A person liking you as you are,
Very rare,
Facebook is social media with fakeness,
Believe what you want about friends,
I mean really believe,
This is how I feel,
Take care for now,
Be good to others,
And let life lead you to happiness any which way you go.