THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER OF MY ENEMIES

My personal fave-very motivational

 

the great yellow river of my enemies

 

there’s a dead horse on my back

a horse pissing upstream

watching all those grand ideas

floating down the river

 

warm

            wasted

                        potential

 

but just maybe

my enemies have set up camp

about a mile down

they have come to watch me fail

 

and just maybe

they are thirsty

so they head to the running water

and dip their parched lips

into the surface

of the stream

 

and for one brief moment

we are all thoroughly refreshed

 

 

Reviews

[fallen_sueanne]

It took me a second to think about this, but all in all I like this piece. Good job

[Seeker]

The last stanza baffled me at first, but after the second read and some thought, it made sense. Lovely poem.