Poems From Inside Me

Places Men Forgot

Chosen Boy

            In the darker times

            When no word rhymes

            I walk to places men forgot

            And where women are not shy

            In the moonlit hours

            where the drunk man cowers

            I look upon what shall soon be gone

            and wonder about my own time

            I thought it would be longer

            I had hoped I would be stronger

            but I'm only one lonely simple guy

            trying not to feel alone, trying not to cry

            the smile upon her face

            when we were in that scary place

            makes me fear that someone knows

            that this is where love never grows

            and so the days go by

            and the nights I don't ask why

            forty years before I felt enough

            to put away being so tough

            to be a poet in this world

            is to be in the darkness hurled

            towards some kind of fate

            of something all mothers hate

            I wish I could have been more

            but at a young young age I closed the door

            easy riches, easy life

            simple choices, beautiful wife

            the moon counts off the things I need

            It's not just simple greed

            do I deserve to sow the seed

            that lasts a hundred years?

            Jacob is his name

            the boy alone, perhaps insane

            I wanted to help in some way

            but she said no come back another day

            fifteen years went by

            and she asked me why

            I didn't love her like she loved me       

            there was nothing there you see