compliments like cheap chocolate
leave a bad taste on even the least tentative tongue
for just a small offering of an honest opinion
I'd give one and or either a life giving lung
too much stock put into one's self can formulate a
terrific case of stiff neck syndrome
over the petted and pampered Hollywood types
surely this concept derives from
can you not forget my much too noticeable name and
just label me as 'friend'
does not every branch know its not supposed to break
but only bend
does not the sins of war eventually get cast to the
ground of all man's feet
and in the middle of such confusion and crisis
mere mortal men manage to come together and half way
meet
I have yet had to dismember my soul in my search for
its crucial missing pieces
if one can not recognize and iron out the small wrongs
then he won't long be able to retain his uncontrollable
emotional creases
fragments of my many miss filtered faults
permeate my reasoning as they attempt to take over
and rethink my thoughts
inadvertence is an unlikely risk only out for the take
sometimes this black feeling of not truly belonging
to this deep part of my soul
is the hardest of all to shake
for so little, so much is at stake
I pray for self release
but there is nothing around me to pick up or break
you must not judge me too harshly on my self crippling
and less than lovely scrawls
but as I am about to turn yet another unexpected corner
in this maze of furthering myself
my ears flatten as I strain to hear what exactly to me
this paramount page calls................
(written Feb 1,1992 am)