Words

Today, much love
tomorrow, no love

Today, I’m cunning
tomorrow, I’m humming

Before a crowd, it’s as drinking coke
before hot damsel, on it I choke

In the shower, as water runs on me
it runs through me
But when I sit, as is the paper…blank
so is my mind…blank

I run, I swim, I kick, I flip
I talk, I hush, I sit, I watch

I read, I muse, on better ways to use
I dig, I ponder, on better ways to wonder

Then when on the spot,
I ummm…, I ahhh…
I can’t find the way to fuse
but, while churning in dark night, then comes the juice
Ways I should have, could have, would have…but did not

All this pun and con, to off my hat to that
to which those with mastery, use
and those with frailty, abuse

All these pancakes of lines…
lines with words…
words to show the complexity of the word,
“Word”

July 16, 2009