Why Can I Not Be: A Poem
Why can I not be as the rest?
Content with the way things are
Struggling with greenbacks and relationships
Complicating every facet of the diamond of life
I just would be pleased with a hut, food and meager clothes
And aloneness to comfort my tortured mind
With it's deluding for answers to questions which ran
Through me with unequalled force and speed
A death or rebirth would be heaven enough for me
Alone I write, think and sit about the deepest of oceans
Surrounded by the stagnant ponds and streams of humanity
Published by Scott Bauer
Novelist, poet, and an average guy who has happened to have done more than most. Now taking the time to figure out just what I have done and why... View profile
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