Poor
A four letter word
A four letter word unable to describe, unwilling to collide
My world,
My world with reality.
The paper and the pen cannot produce a fine enough line
Cannot create in my mind…the substance…of what is my world
Poor.
I am not, I will not be…but oh you see I am
Defined by a phrase too thin to graze, too slight to phase
Even the flies... who use my eyes for water
What is this word
So unsubstantial, but what else is new.
For like it, I slip through:
the pavement in your swimming pools,
Slide through
the cracks in your Sunday schools,
I am your brother, your neighbor, with no sign of favor
Poor.
Four letters of no relation to those other four
Four letters that deprive me of them.
Poor
Peace be upon you,
C.R.Mills
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