Poems on Life - Blackout Poetry Notes

America’s Greatest Promise

You are thrilled by
America's greatest promise
of absolute good.
Lured by movies,
chewed up like a fall guy,
only to be conned
in Hollywood plot.

Fate is the captain behind
the steering wheel
in past narration and tales
of magic.

Always in love,
he never doubted whether
his early years, full of passion
and immorality were too stiff
to be interesting.

Home together on
Sunday morning
coffee cup in hand
is what I want,
I'm hoping someday
you'll understand.

Be wholly in the present
with good or bad
of everyday life.

I deserved better.
I was waking up.
Redemption is something you do.
I started thinking I should
forgive and live
in the present.

Skim over petty troubles
and experience enlightenment.
The troubles we have
give us drama.

She was a lonely bird
full of unchanging melancholy.
She felt a terrible appeal
to detach from everything.

Barren
and weary of money -
a death Americanized.
How weary the world was.

She is
fire and water.
For the first time,
she is vivid,
free, and full of life,
and shall go on living
so complete.