Short Poems

“Attendance - I’m here to live life;

It’s intentional: Steering me right;

I incentivize climbing new heights;

Have to emphasize,

otherwise I’d be be below the high

- No disguise:

I’m better - remember who I am

- I testify by being genuine;

Acumen when I determine what’s real, what I feel

- Unconcealed: The version of me that’s ideal.”

- Old Dying Joe

“If I ever faultered, it was all my fault;

Old defaults busted- don’t trust them at all;

Retold their stories - they bore me - they stall;

I don’t halt -

Do continue exalting the narrative where I declare the imperative,

Galvanize, mobilize, follow my grown advice

- Catalyze hopeful times, allow my own delight.

Err to give air: Breathe and repair.”

- Old Dying Joe