WHEN THE TONGUE LEFT THE CHEEK

Our mouths do all the talking

They’re the most powerful being in the body

The tongue that is

Surrounded by the walls of teeth and gums

The tongue is the strongest muscle man has

But experts are wrong if they stop 

There because the tongue also has a brain

He says what he wants when he thinks it

Moreover has he a stomach as well

Craving all sorts of things like a meal or another tongue

Even a pair of legs too, since he speaks words that

Take man down past paths and future roads

The tongue always wants to be satisfied 

And what he wills will be satisfied because

When he’s hungry I eat

When he’s thirsty I drink

When he’s tired I yawn

When he’s inspired I sing

When he’s mad I swear

When he’s sad I wail 

When he’s confused I question

The tongue is my master and he says he is lonely

And I don’t know what to do when he is lonely

Other than all these other things.

So I’ll eat and drink and yawn and sing and swear and wail and question

Until the tongue is satisfied by what I give it to taste.

CHOOSING A NEW VOCATION: LOVE

I will tell you a few words on love

love is not an emotion nor is it a feeling

it is not how you react based on how your day is going

or how many people smiled at you on your way to work

it has nothing to do with how happy or sad you are

how much you laugh cry sing or 

get laughed at or cried with or sang to no it is none of these

this non-emotive love depends itself on nothing

that you can touch with your hands or see with your eyes

loving is true when it hurts you back because its unfair 

as unjust love is the only kind that exists

since there is no pride in love there is no expectation 

for it to turn around and love you back

for it to say well done good and faithful and

give you a medal with a trophy and a hug with a kiss

love is what you do with your time and it must

be accompanied with action surrounded with intention

rooted in patience and kindness 

akin to submitting submission without apprehension  

love is a man denying his instinct to give up when the

going gets tough or the same old gets old

it is a bondservant working so his master can have more

when we try to bring love into politics that is when

we emasculate it of its heart which is nonsensical as

there is no love without the organ which gives it life

therefore love is not dying for what you believe in

but staying alive for what is noble and true and right

despite the pain of a breaking back bent over in on itself

because surely the man who stumbles forty times over

practices love better than he who walks straight in line

with a wife by his side with curled lips for an entire life

love is the only key to joy that you will ever find

no matter what height you have found from feelings

however when you have scaled that summit then jump right off

pummel till you lose the hope of surviving the fall

and when those close seem to fade from view

and they start to fall right along with you

love enough not to let them go but

love enough to let them know

that you are falling for them.