BLUE FUNK

Condescending tones

Snap like broken bones

Sophisticated naiveté

Grandiose hubris

Daily grind through slipshod façade

Witness to routine hurt

My place

Unable to convert

Alter another’s chosen course

Quite often

I encounter defiance

Blue funk malaise

Ballsy brass contempt

Brazen disrespect

For all things virtuous

My earnest prayers

Lifting up those who suffer

Be it consciously or not

Misplaced in life’s pandemonium

Clinging frantically

To their egotistic swagger

As I wipe the acerbic spit

From my brooding face

My heart

Optimisms hemorrhage

Flowing undeterred

Persistent in my commission

Offering citation

Paradigm of He who saved me

Love my neighbor as myself

Grace

Hope

Salvation

Bursting from His holy light

My focus is to share

© Bill Grimes Jr. 2006