Gaining My Mind (Hearing voices)
Gaining My Mind (Hearing voices) I hear voices Not of angels but of men Not of saints but of poets Not of poets with us But those gone I heard Coleridge As I cross the bridge The divide between bards And teething brats I hear Kipling When sleeping When awake I hear Blake Never written Lores, long forgotten Were told to me in depth In fear I caught my breath As I hear from silence From the hush and darkness Of my sleepless night I became a knight Named for an errand A mission to herald Like the muezzin call The pious to prayer These voices call My pen and I to paper Bleed my pen Bleed, tell the children Life is a thing they do not know Tell the adults they cannot know What life is Tell them They cannot win always Life is for living And not racing Spew my pen Tell the history of future Weave a new culture Verse a new fashion Sing new vision.