Warts And All

In a dark way now this is somewhat comical to me... At the time this piece was a cynical reponse written after a lay off from 3 years of hard work with a start up company that had serious potential

My personality battles me

while saddling a high horse on a wide course

that can't be bridled by the Bible

Red letters vs black stallions

in purple rain, it gets better when serpents are slain

and mountains are moved, I'm counting on you

 

between emergency rations

and white knuckles, I fight to struggle & struggle to fight

humbled by life, under the knife

A nip tuck, sharpening my heart with it

hard going through change,

 

it's strange but I do it, cause it's fluid

go with the flow, the motion alone controls a ocean

 

people not allowed to be feeble or real

seven seas, seven seals, seven deadly sins

making Jerry Maguire amends

 

Show me the money that I'll have to spend

until I blend into the world's approval

 

removal of old, new world order clones

just keeping up with the Jones'

 

skeletons in the closet are just broken bones

communicating with a spoken tone

 

frustration chaperones words

through a flood of statements, unretractable

apocalypse deposit slips attached to them

 

consume flesh & blood, bite the hand that feeds

wants are prayed with urgency, forgotten are the needs

 

Bigger this faster that, followed by passive acts

when passion lacks, and that's a fact,

"But it's aight", "It is what it is", "it's all good". "handle ya biz"

sprinkling ebonics when you don't know what I'm going through

but tell me how to live.

I'm too busy minding mine

So give that freelance saviour routine a 1099...I want a refund.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

maybe we spend too much of ourselves to blend into "the world's approval"---

even when we are trying to mind our own business...

yes, i would want a refund also.