I heard it said long ago
“It’s the little things
that really piss you off.”

For we are so easily annoyed
by the slow drivers, that
grandpa called the creepers,
or those who are sleepers
at the red-light turned green
or clods  making a loud scene
at the movies or airport
as they fail to deport
themselves to our expectations
having thus huge ramifications
on our demeanor and seeming
to say something of us, meaning
we didn’t learn to let little things go.
Instead it would be better to know,
how to see little things which bind
us to the world in ways we could find
bring us happiness and little joys
like a child first encountering toys
or the morning dew on a flower
or the first taste of sweet and sour
and the hold of loving hands
in a stroll across white sands
and the joy of full sails by the lee
with a fair and following sea.

Better to let all the little annoyances go,
and instead find vital little things to enjoy!