Among saints & sinners,
Good & evil
God & Satan
Nothing matters.
Among books filled with
Words, conformed and
Pressed into a small child’s
Mind
Nothing matters.
Among the shadows,
Self-esteem cut down by
Authority and the egos of
Those who have murdered and
Buried their dreams
Nothing matters.
Among the opinions & speculations,
Expectations ten long years after
Who is the failure and what
Is contentment
Nothing matters.
Among the critics and
The sad petty levelers
The damned & the damning
Nothing matters.
Among the forgotten,
The wild actions of a
Once uncaring, unconscious youth
Nothing matters.
Among the depressed, the once
Suicidal who couldn’t
Find his place in reality’s schemes
Nothing matters.
Among the conquests,
Among the losses & unreal lovers,
The young women made love to and the
False makeup queens soul-fucking in the
Aftermath of ruins & chaos and the
Human heart
Nothing matters.
And among the love given and
Taken, created & destroyed,
Possessed and disowned
Nothing matters.
For these words … are my religion,
This voice … is my church,
This poetry … is my existence
And nothing else matters.
R.M. Engelhardt
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R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others.
Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com
He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk.
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