MY PAPER AND PEN

This is another poem from my past that I wrote in 1974.


MY PAPER AND PEN

TO SIT DOWN AND WRITE
WITH MY PAPER AND PEN
IS A PLEASURE I FIND
WHEN THERE'RE THOUGHTS TO CONTEND.

TO WRITE CRAZY THOUGHTS DOWN
MAKE THEM SEEM SMALL
WHILE UP IN MY MIND
THEY GET NOTHING BUT TALL.

AS THEY RUN FROM MY BRAIN
DOWN MY ARM THEY GET TIRED.
SOME OUT OF BREATH
SOME ARE EXPIRED.

SO WHENEVER IF FEEL
I'M ENGULFED BY MY MIND
MY PAPER AND PEN
CAN'T BE CALLED "WASTE OF TIME".