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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2016-03-03 02:14 PM

Being alone is not so grim,
I do what I want on a whim,
There is no one to answer to,
Then why do I think about you.

Four walls seem closer than before,
They make me want to loudly roar,
But I find I temper my zeal,
There are times it's so hard to feel.

I peer through the mirror at me,
Wonder whose face it is I see,
I continue to look and stare,
That’s not me I solemnly swear.

I’m trying my best to be strong,
Sometimes I feel I don’t belong,
My aloofness hides my despair,
It’s almost more than I can bear.

I am losing the "who I am,"
To some long-lost spiritual scam,
I've given up on who I was,
To thunderous, vulgar applause.

I want to live, not ossify,
Recon back to a groovy guy.
I can, you know, but I’ve said that.
I shall, or my name isn’t Pat.

©March 3, 2016 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2016-03-03 02:25 PM

You can recon back to groovy if you want but that was 50 years ago...I think you are a better person today, having 50 years to grow on. As much as we'd like we can't live in the past, we only have today and what the past has made us. ~L

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-03-03 02:47 PM

Oh, I am well aware of what you say, Lori, but just give a guy a little reminiscing. Thank you for your comment.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

rainyday
Member
Posts 304
Heartland USA

3 posted 2016-03-03 05:57 PM

I like your slice-of-life Poems JP.

J

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2016-03-03 06:02 PM

Thank you, Rain, you are appreciated.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

DaysofView
Member

since 2014-04-01

Posts 433
Just A Slice Of The Pie

5 posted 2016-03-04 09:44 AM

I know your older than I am but I like to hear what you say in your poems. I listen to what older people say because they know more and are willing to talk. Everyone should appreciate your words and conversation just like they want to be heard and listened too. You are such a good poet because of what you know and I like that alot!

If I were more than I am, I'd see things differently instead of the same all the time.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2016-03-04 10:14 AM

Thank you, DV. I'm just me, I calls 'um as I sees'em . . . I'm a little too rude and crude for some poets. I can live with that.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

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