Penny

With a penny retreat
A smile in defeat
A lesson in deceit
My, how I've seen it
How could I clean it?
Eyes wedged firmly between it
The source and the issue
Resolved not easily, mind you
Dishonoring laws, breaking curfew
Disillusioned to nothing new
Conceptualize a better view
But dimly it never becomes true




I climb a thousand stairs
I've met a million liars
Picking fights with a psychotic briar
Crawled through the breath of fire
Preached to a belligerent quire
Mocking my tongues attire
Burning within a hollow desire
My hand a motionless quiver
Yet not an effort to deliver
Skin from such a thin sliver
So sweet, as a spoon shines silver


Again, same green lighter
On cloud nine, or maybe even higher
Burning as a candle, but brighter
Where it soaks in skin like water
Till the flame burns even hotter
With morphine not to bother
Telling not mother nor father
Telling me its change
One mind to derange
One soul to oppress and cage
Turning onto a blank, empty page
With a lack of will, lack of rage
Beneath the halo of concrete
With not a whole dollar nor a receipt
Just substance stains in a cruel heat
And a lesion in deceit
A smile in defeat
With a penny to retreat