"What is this? Why do you bring this?"

"up" I responded.

He looked up.

"I see nothing."

I got a bit peeved. We'd been over this before. "No, no I was correcting your English. You should have said "Why do you bring this up."

"You're fired." he shot back.

"Huh?" I really needed this job.

"Is that not correct? You are fired up, no?"

My boss asked me to correct his English, then pulled my leg whenever I did it. It was tiring. Most bosses are.

So I decided I was going to pull back.

He let the letter fall and walked over to the origin of the sound. It was the tiniest of squeaks. I thought it must be a mouse, but when we looked behind the radiator, we found a tiny creature, pure white, with pinkish eyes, pinkish nails, and a pinkish underbelly. The creature said

"Please have seats gentlemen. I have some big news for you."

The creature jumped onto my boss' desk and began to propound

Life begins when we say it begins
and death is forever present
one and the same
in death we live
long live the natural man
the man of self made truths
and respect for the self made truths of others

"That's what the letter said!" my boss blurted out.

He rushed to his desk and grabbed a scruffy plant that had been scruffily on his desk for the full two years I had worked for him. It was the ugliest of plants, mottled, sporadically fuzzy, perpetually just about to bloom, and smelly too. At the utterances from the mysterious creature, the flower opened and the office filled with an ambrosial fragrance. I was overcome with joy. We all three were visibly radiating love.

I wish it could be this easy. I wish we could all find a tiny creature within arm's length that could talk sense into us via poetry and bring us back to our natural state of love and joy.

This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. On Saturdays we have a second option of the fabulous Three Part Freewrite: we write for one prompt for five minutes, then move onto the second and third prompts, no peeking ahead. It's always a trip! The prompts are in bold italics in my entry today.

I had such a hard time with this freewrite!! I started and stopped for the first prompt a few times before I got something to flow. Most of the second and third prompts were produced laboriously, except for the poem which spurted right out. In the end, my usual message shined through. Thank you for reading my enigmatic freewrite.

Notice for Newbies on Hive

Real people read your posts in this community! There are no rules!!! A post doesn't suck up your entire day!!!! You can safely let your imagination take flight! You will feel the love!

Try to remember to leave a link under @mariannewest's . That will help us find you. The easiest way to find the daily prompt is to go directly to @mariannewest's blog. Here is today's post.

To maximize readership, you might also post in the Freewriters Community (or @hive-161155), use a first tag of #freewrite or #freewritepoetry, go leave comments on others' freewrites, or any combination of those.

We are good people, it's a no judgment zone, and #freewriters is an excellent community to get your feet wet on Hive.