Poem-A-Day: Day 244

I’m No Man

I’m no man of the word,
I’m a man of the people.

A man struck down,
beat down and soulless,
reckless and dead on the inside
that watches over the world
with his only regret
being that he won’t be there
to watch it end,
is the type of man
that stands over, hovering the world
and governing with his word,
his standards…
they’re standards.

So I sit calmly, quietly,
while life works its way out
and I repeat to myself
that I am no man of the word,
I am a man of the people.