welled worth

took me 25 years

to learn how to speak well

another 50

to write better

and 75 to realize

that no one gives

a damn what is said

*

damned if i do

damned if i don’t

damned if i do i

and damn if i don’t

which is something

i would do

in my total damnation

*

i never wish

to be a star

for they burn down

i prefer to be

the space

it collapses into

empty but total

containing all

change by not changing

and all the wishes too

where people look

on to the darkness

and try to see something

shoot across the sky

*

i keep my faith strong

for i have been unfaithful

believing myself

filled with something more

than just faith