New Poems by John D. Robinson

SERIOUSLY

I don’t take anything too

seriously,

most of all myself

and I think of Pessoa’s

words

‘I am nothing,

know I am nothing’

and one time I sat

beside his bronze

statue in

beautiful Lisbon and

pondered these very

words and later I saw

the ‘elephant man of

Lisbon’ staggering

through the streets

and the reactions of

people varied from

shock and curiosity to

pity and that meant

nothing to him or me,

because he knew also

he was nothing,

that I was nothing,

no more than the space

between each second

of time,

whether a prince or

freak pauper

or poet.

ILLITERATE SEEDS

He was illiterate, dumb and

uneducated, without hope

or desire or dreams or

ambition, he made little

contribution to society,

spent time in prisons

and very little time in

conventional employment,

he was truly fucked-up

from his first drawn

alcoholic , rootless breath

and for 43 years he

fucked up mostly

everything in his life;

but I came to know him,

to love him

as the man who was
my father.

Find more new poems by John D. Robinson  here: https://georgedanderson.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/featuring-john-d-robinson.html