Balanced

Balanced

by dan ankers

Meet the new balanced me

He still says things inappropriately, and yet he’ll hug you after the deed is done

His motives didn’t change, but he has learned to leave you with a smile

He doesn’t win awards because nobody likes his style, and yet it gets shit done

And in his heart he feels as if he’s won, trophies and trinkets and baubles be cursed, those are for bearded men who have worked for the works

but give me results, some lives getting better

an addict in remission

a child being fed.

Real siit

No substitute.

I salute

A Speck

A Speck

by dan ankers

I am a speck that matters a lot to a few

as with most of us, who are loved by a bevy of groups

We matter so much

We do

We Specks on the lenses of time to be wiped

we mattered while we were there the the lovely ones and the growns and the tykes

Never could we make it make sense in mathematical terms, we germs

we earn our spot on earth by being birthed.and then learned proper in them schools, following

them there rules, which are largely a pile of nonsenses as we shall see

and not to mention pecking order, or disorder as it were. They set us up there to thrive and to fail

only to be better off when we avail our own tree

Family is...whoever will give unto the root, which is the source of all life

really. we find it

divine it

this root

so simple, and yet it yields us very few answers

Out-Caste

Out-Caste

by dan ankers

Categorically, I guess I will make my own

category

so I can be alone

I want to be an outcast

in a Caste

of my own

so I can be

alone

but

never lonely

owned

but never

in debt

paid

but

never rich really

I live a rich feeling

I express this reality

this is me

the castle

I'm all ears

I’m all ears

by dan ankers

Tips for when I listen

shut up

I know the cosmos are vast

but she’s actually kinda hot

and

Not in a sort-of good-enough kind of way

No, this chick is uber-cool

and she actually has something to say

so shut the fuck up and listen

That’s your mission

We all know that the universe is vast

and that our economy is in dire need of help

and that our current stance of starting false wars

over oil in foreign places, while babies and children die

just can’t last

but man

Just listen

This is your mission

She’s hot

and you like her a lot

shut up

People Who Care

People Who Care

by dan ankers

I felt so strained as I walked along the street today

The sidewalk though paved

felt as if it was a world away

In the cold bleakness

There were women/men though all the same

If I am special

I am still an urchin

unworthy

Though hooded, cloaked

arched to one side

I stride

that tide

drug dealers

old ties

old friends

some lose

who wins?

I look to me for an answer

I found none.

I ate my breakfast

and downed a couple sleeping pills

and I was

done

Money

Money

by dan ankers

Some say that money is the root of all evil

I say that the love of anything

sightless and trivial

which causes you to harm your fellow

woman or man is

evil

Even if that love is

in the form of the perception of the god of your

choice

Honestly Driven

Honestly Driven

by dan ankers

I would much rather be

successful at me

than an ounce of anything else

I would much rather die

a success at I

than renounce my essence

of self

The death of poetry

The death of poetry

by dan ankers

I forgive you for all the shit you put me through

and in the end I would highly recommend you to someone new

that was all in the past

though it felt like my world was shards of broken glass

at that time

They say distance makes the heart grow fonder

but your lack of presence in my life has made you blonder

and your brother

and your friends

and your mother…

I hope all of them are doing fine

We were never meant to be

When we first kissed at the beach

and

It would have been a wonderful story

a classic case of vacation glory

but that story didn’t end

it carried on

And when you place two folks in a box

and when you fasten it with locks

sometimes the thing you get just makes you die

and you’re never quite the same

as when you learned that pretty name

and it’s awful

who’s to blame for wasted time

Armageddon is Eventual, because I say so

Armageddon is Eventual, because I say so

by dan ankers

Who cares if there is a god

Who cares if there is an afterlife

Who cares?

Babies are dying every day for no reason

Do you think that is right?

Do you believe that your god cares about the details?

What if all the rigamarole is just a test

and the portent of Armageddon

is one of the rest?

Maybe your perceptions of what is right and wrong

came from the mouths of men?

And the obvious nature of the truth

needs to be seen through the eyes of a universal view.

Pull back

Yes

Pull Back and Look

57th childhood

57th childhood

by dan ankers

This is me.

Taking things seriously, for once, because I want to do things MY WAY. I Started feeling silly out of remorse.

My way as we exit the highway

briefly shows you how wonderful you can be

just trust me

it’s okay

Name’s Rusty

and so we were powering along

acquiring many new friends

but that’s not the end of this tale

No one here knows anything at all

We’re just brains, Stewing in the air

ALERT

and

searching for some clarity

oh what an elemental rarity!

Between us lies distant

Yet reminiscent patterns of almost  computer like

despairity

we act talk and think

take a drink

from the fountain of

profanity

and now it seems you want a fantasy?

Well, I can see that you and me are gonna have a lot in common

I  come from sWanKy London

via NeW JeRseY

to see and be with you

but let’s GET REAL

Cause it’s the real Deal

Out HERE

Where you can moooove

and the fog parts for you even once in awhile

Just stay with us

and you will live in

STYLE

Disappearance

Disappearance

by dan ankers

The sweltering heat left behind in my rearview mirror

apparitions of yesterday

rising up from the streets

Gremlins untold If I’d cared to remember them

one after the other

like a funeral procession

And my mind couldn’t be asked to perform such a task as that

for whatever mind was

it was limited solely to driving

Away from all

away from her

away from you

away from me, even

and

Most importantly of all

I was running from time

For time had amassed a credit to me which I could now receive

and be paid in full

Seascape

Seascape

by dan ankers

What is a poem but scattered sea foam

collecting at the foot of the waves and the tide

the extras you find when great things have passed by

redolent of of everything high

but lowest of things

you can find

Where along the beach and among the crashing of the waves

and the breeze through the sand

Where people like I can collect it, direct it

till it subsides

and it’s bubbles are gone

and no more

That is what poems are

and that is what

dreamers are for

to see where the people see nothing

and are lost among the sea

and the roaring tide’s rushing

Why

Why

by dan ankers

Why did I get born

Why did the sun rise today

does any of it mean anything at all

So that simple cause and effect meanings

do not convey

the only way?

I mean it’s all cause and effect in the end, but I hope you know what I mean

Is there more than a mere cause and effect

hot pocket universe dream?

Did we all get borned in a microwave

Did the universe just leave it on too long

and is it all one day just going to collapse

to be reborn again

repeating this song.

Evermore, Evermore quoth the Raven

and with her talons she did improvise a dance

But is that dance merely all that there ever was?

or is this world a much greater

thing, that it needs to be cherished?

This universe immortalized

These days Counted