Reality Check Poem by John Sensele

Reality check lands in your comfort zone when out of the blues
Steam in your career development evaporates
Students on sound grounds feel their assignments lose
Marks because of your concubines ' threats.

Reality check hits you between your eyes
When your long suffering partner points out the folly
In your pursuit for concubines cries
For a sudden halt if you're to win the respect of your daughter, Molly.

Reality check sneaks into your home
When grandsons no longer hold you in awe
As you stumble in with a concubine 's comb
Stuck in your kinky hair in tow.

Reality check flies in your face
When church elders, colleagues and counselors
Feel you ought to create time and space
To rejig friendships you've forged with philandering bachelors.

Reality check lands a fly in your soup
When your favorite EPL team suffers three defeats in a row
After you've invested in one swoop
Zillions of quid in sterling strikers for victories to grow.

Reality check jumps on your back
When weeks, days, minutes and seconds
Invested in booze, dissipation and a pack
Teeming with insolence crack a whip made from plantain fronds.

Reality check queers your popularity
Plummets and citizens feel your squadron of presidential jets
In an economy reeling under low prices which your national export commodity
Fetches low prices despite your vulture fund bets and whining debates.

Reality check hits your family
When your offspring dislike school and play pool
Twenty four seven and rate your advice silly
Because you ain't cool.

Reality check shocks your sensitivity
When a street kid strangles an urchin
Over a penny a good Samaritan whose generosity
Doles out as he strokes the street kid's emaciated chin.

Reality check hits a pinnacle
When politicians surrender their dignity
To hoodlums who pray for a miracle
For their benefactors to pit incivility, individuality against reality.

Reality check sweeps by
When the angel of your romantic dreams
Falls flat on her face and grunts a sigh
Teeming with arrogance as she unleashes invective streams.