Thinking Out Loud

always said  
before I get stuck  
inside a nursing hone  
I’d walk in front of a  
big diesel truck  
eh . . .  
way things are going  
it won’t be much longer  
to make good  
of my thoughts  
eh (again)  
thing is  
I don’t want to leave  
this old earth  
never understood  
those who clung onto life  
no matter  
how wracked with pain  
they were in  
though I am not wracked with pain  
(yet)  
I have my problems  
and where it used to take  
years for things to change  
for the worst  
these days is seems  
to be an everyday occurrence  
don’t know what lies ahead for me  
(well, that isn’t totally true)  
I DO know pretty much what lies ahead  
what I do not know on this  
eighteenth day of June 1917  
is how I will react  
will I step in front of that semi?  
probably not  
I assume I will cling to life  
as most of us do  
this not a morbid write  
just something I needed to get off my chest  
so I did  
now it is over  
bon voyage, y’all  
 
©June 18, 2017 / Jerry Pat Bolton