THE WORLD DOESN’T STOP
The world doesn’t stop
If you’re angry
The world doesn’t stop if
You’re old or tired
It doesn’t stop
Regardless of your love
Or humanity
The earth spins
Keeps turning despite
Your lack of conformity
Or caring, your belief or
A non belief in a God or
Charity against war or
Poverty
The world doesn’t stop
Even if someone pulls
The trigger or sets a church
On fire
You can love or not love
Live or stop living
Hope or not hope
Dream or stop dreaming
It’s all up to you
The choice is yours
And no one else
You can protest
Write endless songs or
Poems or be whoever
You want
But in the end?
The final verse
Falls upon us all
An act of infinite
Gesture or a passing
Without thought or
Voice
And the earth
Shall still carry on
Without you
The birds shall still
Chirp in morning light
& the trees shall still
Sway in the wind
And the world
Doesn’t stop
So the most you can do is
Write your name upon
The rocks
And leave your message
For the lost
With instructions
For a better world
And hope
They listen
The World Doesn’t Stop
~ R.M. Engelhardt ©2022
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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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