WITH NOTHING MORE TO SAY
Some day
One day
You won’t reach out
For fame
Because it doesn’t
Exist never existed
Never came or stayed
or ever paid
The rent
True
Or real
Or yours
Or was ever
Truly
Like words
And then?
Someday
Sometime off
In a near distant future place you
Will find yourself standing up
On a stage older
And under the lights
All alone
Empty & Vacant
Like all the stars
You once dreamed of or
Wrote about
Yet still comparing
Yourself to all the
“Famous Ones” remembered & yet
Constantly complaining about how
Your genius wasn’t noticed &
Was over looked
By fools
As you wish to believe
You were a great part of history
The handful worth reading
When the truth is
Nobody & no one will
Even remember your name
Perhaps
In a month?
Even
A decade or just a
Year from now?
And they won’t
Recall or remember
A single word you said
Or wrote
Finding that all
The mingling &
Sucking up and the fake
Complimenting
Didn’t get you very
Far in life
At all
And that this will
Be the sad day the infinite
Day of all days
Future
And past
With no love
Soul or sentimentally
Left
But perhaps?
The artist was wrong
And the lecture
Has ended
But
In your version
You believe that
Your handful of
Blind followers
Will think
That you have
Mysteriously
Disappeared
Like Rimbaud
Or some other
Immortal legend
But instead
You’ll be found
In the drive thru
At McDonald’s
Surviving
~ 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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