More Than One Way...

Frustration wanted to do a favor

For his cranky neighbor...
He wanted to fix his fence

“The fence is so very long and in such

Awful
Disrepair”

He thought

“And my neighbor did such a tremendously

flawed job

in building it to begin with”

He thought

 

“I’ll just help him out”

 
He thought

“and repair it for him...

as a kindness.”

 

But when Frustration went to fix the fence
Cranky chased him away
With a broom and a boot.
   

On the other side

Of the cranky neighbor
 
Grace had no intention of
Fixing the fence

Even though it was in such

Awful
Disrepair
 
Instead, she planted strawberries all along
The fenceline
 
And in the summer,
Grace and Cranky ate strawberries
With sticky fingers
And smiles
And leaned together against the crooked fence