simple start

I floss my teeth to forget
And then I brush them to remember
And I keep myself growing in awareness
because of each steady mumble
Days spent laughing for no reason at all
With intermixed sets of stumbling
And letting myself fall
Strange ways of growing
But certain that it’s progression
Afraid of myself
But haven’t given up yet
Trying hard to just be content
But growling with grief of what I’ve got
Stranger than a silhouette of yourself
That you can’t see a resemblance of
I brush my gums sometimes
And think about when I worked in the city
for a big corporation
And knew it wasn’t for me
At least I had an idea
Of what I thought I was
And now I’m just laying here
With the whole wide world above
When my bodies this low
All I can do is whiten these teeth
And try to watch a show
Of what I want to believe
Because all that I’ve truly found
Is that no matter where your body rests
Even on the ground
The only person who can create
What you want to see
Is the person inside of you
Who you knew you thought you’d be
So all you can do
is take ten thoughts forward
And two steps back
Focus on the simple things
Start down at the plaque

© LL