Monday, January 6, 2014

A poet in a poem knows no home

Publish the poem and 
hush the known poet 
who knows no home 
besides growing
tired of inspired 
self deluded tricks 
up the sleeve

and how rhythm 
and rhyme weaves
down a river
gushing to the sea 
and you as well 
see the need
to write the line 

of your mind not to define but 
to remind us all 
it is the call that makes us fall
short of who we are...
imagine, if we had taken the
road less traveled? 
As we rage into the night

The poem would have at least graveled 
into the heart and said, from
the start what led you to believe 
in the thought, the rhyme, the page 
when we were young 
and distractions were fun 

as well as never having to belong
as we were content in playing our hearts 
out and  figuring out 
what it is all about... 
am I to be happy? 
after all the writing without fighting?
and the right to be known?

for the wife and the children 
are home and the poet 
well, he knows it well, there 
never comes a time where the line
ends and there is not home
dear to defend; or pretend,
as we descend into the night.

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