Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Kit Kelen #1371 - vocation


1371
vocation


I do it every day … can’t be helped  
it’s poetry
or so I say
no metaphor intended

though I could call it music
though I could claim an art

and yes , by accident of course
see these fences, all still standing
must be where I’ve mended

easy
see – that’s it!
out you come…
all you have to

just these few lines every morning
no date for their release

first thing and sometimes wake me
like the dream went on
there isn’t a heaven for up

I’m not waiting for some pinhead angel
to land, declaim
to offer fame

you don’t think I have fears?

throw myself to the lions sometimes
harp at a cow
chuck pearls

trip myself up often
it keeps me warm
the falling

not doing it to win the gong
not here for the anecdote
the chat, the likes
I’d rather it became a song

I do it every day
no slouch

it’s with a worker’s cap I doff
get better by doing it
I’m better for that

I make a career
go headlong
I take frail hearts with me

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