All Fools Day, and National Poetry Month.

How many are dying of thirst.
While never being the first.
When others fail
You leave the trail.
Hear fools cast doubt.
One can choose own route.
See heroes fall.
Then you answer the call.
Feel the warmth fade.
That’s when destiny is made.
Success is a hunger.
Holdfast awhile longer.
Watch as cities burn.
Now it is your turn.
Touch the wronged.
Loved is longed.
Run when you have to.
Walk when your aim is true.
Crawl until you are through.
Sing songs of grandeur.
Let life be your chauffeur.
Make your mark.
Press it stark.
Breath in your fate.
Lay with your mate.
Create peace when others fight.
Destroy the false keep the right.
Naked aggression, with late night cuddle sessions.
What’s been an expression, is not a forgotten lesson.
Cherish what you hold.
It is an honor to grow old.
Aches and pains with muscle sprains.
Others no longer can train.
Some voices can no longer speak.
Live through us is what they seek.
The person you need.
You the person the creed.
Creep beneath your anxiety.
Become your own deity.
Stalk through ambitions.
Surface above superstitions.
Taste success.
Savor the stress.
Or remain still.
Life is a skill.
Better than yesterday.
Worse in another way.
Losing the the past.
Future comes fast.
Now is here.
Nowhere to steer.
Courage and bravery
Above the mental slavery.
Yes, it is difficult.
No, you cant sulk.
Sometimes let the emotions in.
To see where the issues begin.
Console the negative shadow.
See if we can grow
Land of plenty.
Seems pretty empty.
Toddler’s falling over borders.
Houses crammed full of hoarders.
It is easier to quit.
Yet be taxed for it.
Clogged shipping.
Finances take a whipping.
Stimulus checks.
Government collects.
Piece of paper deems worth.
Wood carries us forth.
Latex prevent us.
Love intent with fuss.
Sometimes the words land where they should.
All days are what we could.
Half way to the end.
Break until you bend.
Take chances.
But do the preventive dances.
Regrets and your best bet.
Live the life you won’t forget.
Give in if you must.
Be careful who you trust.
Knaves mumble.
Leaders remain humble.
Institutions will crumble.
Revolutions start to tumble.
That is not here nor there.
Before you can stare.
Get these negative thoughts out your head.
Best dreams are not in bed.
To action.
Step after step traction.
Before another distraction.
Don’t look back.
Bad habits attack.
Gaze straight. Be great.
Never linger, while others point the finger.
Change can be strange.
Alterations and altercations.
Work and vacations.
The public is blind.
Your truth you must find.
The one’s who matter don’t mind.
Times will be the longest.
If the river is strongest.
Boil the sea, burn the land.
Nothing but sky take stand.
Control the heat.
Eat less meat.
Get out of the seat.
Charge over the hills
When the ocean spills.
Water is plastic.
Too acidic.
We toil for the oil.
Sun boils upon the soil.
Connected but apart.
Quarantine art.
Seconds click by.
minutes try.
When all is said and done.
Battles fought and won.
Cowards drop and run.
History decides the winner.
The future determines the sinner.
Final words, stab like swords.
First impressions and red flags.
Smiles slowly start to lag.
Be brave in what your brought.
Intentions may be forgot.
To wish for it go faster.
Will surely bring disaster.
Dreams can be your master.
Expectations minus reality.
I want to see this in all it finality.
The last breath will whiff.
This body will be stiff.
When it come.
Be not like some.
Who wish they had more time.
More chances to rhyme.
Be like those who instantly fall asleep.
For they did all that their life could keep.
The story flows forth from the lips
Of who you had the deepest relationships.
Or had the longest trips.
Blink and it is over.
Find your best lover.
Look close, look far.
Because it is all that you are.
Then when it at it’s end.
The world can count you as a friend.