My Comedy and Tragedy Masks

The Pendulum swings and I try to dodge,

While dragging my personal ball and chain.

So many complaints my family has lodged,

He is not a poet, He is insane.

 

My mind is a force I cannot control,

I am tossed by the tide again and again.

With my two sides locked in a Super Bowl,

In a game that I feel no one can win.

 

I lay in my bed and think at night,

Why I can’t maintain like a normal guy.

Then I get up like now, I smoke and write,

An endless cycle and I don’t know why.

 

So, I gladly embrace my gift and curse,

 And I log my life out in line and verse.

 

12/28/2024

Reviews

[ETERNITY]

Look at Bukowski: Why did Charles Bukowski stop writing?
Despite being published in Story magazine at just 24, Bukowski turned down an agent, believing he wasn't ready to be a writer and hadn't ``lived enough''. This lack of life experience and self doubt in promoting himself meant he made a conscious decision to stop trying.
DO NOT EVER STOP.

[Dylan Macadham]

It's so often the Square Pegs in round holes who impress us!
Impressive write JT :)

[ETERNITY]

Love the title!

Love this! "The Pendulum swings and I try to dodge,

While dragging my personal ball and chain." KEEP WRITING! EXCELLENT!

[Robert Robbie Lord Dudl..]

Bravo so bold what makes a poet a man is all ages great point great poem