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