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Philosophy Poetry

Out brief candle

What character am I today?
Oft I strive for studious, disciplined

Yet my ego shakes those keeners off
and lets me where a suit
I’m likely to get in trouble for

In grade school I was sent
to the lost & found to find
myself in another’s clothes

after boldly wearing my own
t-shirt listing the names of the
popular kids in the class

under the stamp
Cool Girls Suck

something ran amuck —
I cannot comprehend
my own ten year old mind

that thought her teachers
were arrested in the head

these past life impressions pressed
back out, creating misery this time ‘round

Attachment to the ego,
character Thomas B.
never did bring happiness
so I won’t be attached to thee —

what kind of actor am I today?

Who will I be as I create
causes for ultimate peace
not just for me — 
          what purpose for that?

If I truly love others,
   I’ll escape and come back