Some have 
a place 
while others 
a home 
one is
where one 
stays and 
the other 
is where 
one lays 
and plays 
and prays 
for days 

Enough doesn’t belong 
to just things
it also belongs 
to people when 
I’m involved with 
someone then he’s 
enough and when 
I’m not then 
I am enough 
enough truly is
the only gateway 
to true happiness 
focus on yourself 
and on them 
and pay no 
mind to others 

Having found 
I never 
wish to
be again 
I’m ghost
not ghoul
I move 
not haunt 
wind not
storm or
tempest I 
soothe and 
not suffer 
knowing finally 
not what 
I am
gives me 
the freedom 
to be 
that whichever 

Having been hitched 
behind some truck
and dragged through 
the town’s mud
when I finally 
felt some slack
I broke free 
I know now 
that the tighter 
the tie the 
harder it’ll be 

Where have they
gone all of
them those souls 
those who know 
by having learned 
that through loss
one gets better 
where have they 
gone all those 
who only after 
have learned that 
kindness is better 
than need and 
humor is happiness 
where have they 
gone the pure
the in tact
and the genuine