Someone Else's Art

Someone Else’s Art

Find self esteem without a mirror.

Take a crack at pride.

Target the tyrant’s secrets.

Seek out integrity where it hides

Walk a while, run a mile, rest a minute

There is more to shapes and form than function with in it.

Life is a contest or lately a protest.

Either way I detest the expression “do your best.”

Only to be Critiqued and cataloged

By those who have never

Had a hand

In creation

Only a finger

In the paint of someone else’s art.

Expose the weakness below the layers of plastic skin.

Filter out the smoke that holds onto your breath.

Let the shortness choke you as survival builds

Strength to strike a blow. Begin to grasp what you can't let go.

Life is a contest or lately a protest.

Either way I detest the expression “do your best.”

Only to be Critiqued and cataloged

By those who have never

Had a hand

In creation

Only a finger

In the paint of someone else’s art.

Produce something of merit

A structure to weather the storm.

Time travel, collect on debt

Posthumous fame is all you can ask for.