THE COMMON MAN
The Common Man
Sits in the workplace
Breaks his back in
The factory & writes
Poetry
On the side
Doesn’t give
Two shits about
What the big wide world
Thinks too busy
To deal with those
Who have superiority
Complexes
Issues
& Destroys them
All with a mere
Sentence
Moves on
Keeps writing
The Common Man
Sees what is & what
Could be
Could’ve been
Celebrates
Life & freedom &
Lives in the moment
Doesn’t have time
To deal with other
Writers writing issues
Theories, speculations
Negativity, anger
And Just writes
Just lives
For himself &
Whoever with his words
Might find
Touch
Don’t like what he says?
Doesn’t matter
To him
He just writes
Just cares about
The voices in his
Head that say
“THIS”
Because he
Knows, realizes
That poetry is
Spiritual poetry is
That which is a part
Of the mystery
Of being human
Without compromise
Without explanation
Because
The Common Man
Or the Common Woman
Has more to say than
Those who cannot perceive
Cannot connect
From all walks of life
From all colors, religions
Places & souls
For these are the real voices
From the real world
In which we live
~ R.M. Engelhardt
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R.M. ENGELHARDT 