Terms

“The most you can expect is a kick in the ass,”

the old man said, his gnarled hands firm on my arm

“the world tells you, son, that nothing last

not the hair on your head, not your youthful charms,

“It goes like water running from a cracked dam

and seeps away without the slightest clue

goes and never comes back to your burnt hand

like old tattered pages in the weekly news.

“the answer is there inside of your angry brain

the searching, the finding, the lost and the found

and everything goes with it, even the pain

that a life time seems to perpetually hound

“But child, don’t rush, don’t in a haste

and don’t let one single second go to waste.”