No perfunctory State

For a friend's son going off to Art College in NY.

 I was not intending to put it down in ink

In a state too perfunctory to think

Perhaps, I should have stalled and mellowed

Avoided, absolved as caution bellowed

Without its proper season it may read aghast

Still, I liked it so and no rejections vast

We take that chance to move it forward not past

Knowing it may not bring any future

 

To quarrel in and quarrel out, don't want to leave any doubt?

Hurry here and hurry there, what can't you live without?

Bother with this and bother with that, hope to gain an ounce of clout?

Conjecture was easy for me the way I know it's easy for you

 

Don't let the meanings faintly pass, or grasp them on your way to class

Not you-no way- I would dare not to even say, but Christian don't be fooled

New muse, new bout you have to wonder what it's all about

Excited, distracted, nervous, half torn, on your journey to be re-born

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Omar]

I'm off to study film in less than a month so the poem felt warm for me to read :) I, too, am very "Excited, distracted, nervous, half torn, on [my] journey to be re-born". But reading this, I felt reminded that we should go for it and not let people stand in the way. It's all about new beginnings and new horizons, sure, it feels rickety and unsafe, but we have to go for it. Thanks :)