Poetry is Legend

William Faulkner, James Branch Cabell,
and William Tecumseh Sherman are Legend


Lately, I’ve been uninspired,
disorganized, tired,
and twisted out of shape.
That’s the way men live,
like a railroad tie,
wrapped around a tree.
At every birth,
someone seizes the soul,
and twists it on itself,
so that it can never
be twisted back.
Human beings are only
Sherman’s Neckties in disguise.
A few brave ones
are willing to rebel
against what they are
and twist their spiral
soul to its original shape
and create a world
where lovers don’t remember
where they met
and heartbreak is easy to forget
and no one teaches children to grow.
There is no love in this place,
only rail roads tied around trees.
They refuse to accept this.
The Poets lift up hearts
and hold their hands against
the wounds of the world.
Poetry will be our rebellion
against what we are.