A Mountain Of Sugar
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:10 am
A Mountain of Sugar
I will never write the poetry I want
because I seem unable to be that man.
I remain a frustrated, drunken child
whose words never rise above idiot toys.
To know the levels I reached for
beyond the flesh, earth, moon, or star
is the great absence I feel within.
But I strived for that last mighty apex
much like a cockroach scampering
up a mountain of sugar.
I will never write the poetry I want
because I seem unable to be that man.
I remain a frustrated, drunken child
whose words never rise above idiot toys.
To know the levels I reached for
beyond the flesh, earth, moon, or star
is the great absence I feel within.
But I strived for that last mighty apex
much like a cockroach scampering
up a mountain of sugar.