PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

you pen a few poems
and everyone and his uncle George
from Tacoma thinks they know exactly where
you're coming from
my first priority up until now has simply been
looking out for number one
personally, poetry for me is the only way I can set
myself apart from the rest
what I have to account for to this date is words
I've laid to the page so my thoughts can have
something dependable into which to invest
everyone is running on a guilt track
trying to beat the day to day hum drum
all of us get stuck in the same rusty gear
at one time or another so why look so glum
I am a constant fielder of risk free emotions
the general public on the whole continually
stump me with their money back guarantee potions
if I don't let my many frustrations take to the page
every few days the preoccupation
with what I haven't done bothers me in some very
apparent ways
and what I say and pen stays
it's the ones who work the hardest who know
what an important part forethought plays
I remember my past imperfects all too clearly
like loved ones I've lost even as I loved them
almost dearly
all the answers to the rhetorical questions lay
deeply hidden in my most disheveled head
maybe it is possible to breath life back into
thoughts that have lain dormant near to that
of the almost dead
but these archaic ideas I solemnly refuse to
fuse with or wed
and in fleeting recovery this prose-like-piece
has left a lot still to be said..........
(written May21,1991 in the pm)