Shawn's Poems
Even Winners Lose (One Reason Not to Fight)
Even Winners Lose (One Reason Not to Fight)
Even Winners Lose (One Reason Not to Fight)
Citation, litigation and near amputation
did little to spoil the victory celebration. Winston gladly endured the slight mutilation.
The judge declared vilification.
Winston cried, “It was victimization!
This is an abomination of misinformation! My buddies gave me a standing ovation because of my opponent’s annihilation.
He talked about my mama: It was mere vindication.”
The judge sent him to juvie with much exasperation.
Lost Within a Labyrinth
Even Winners Lose (One Reason Not to Fight)
Even Winners Lose (One Reason Not to Fight)
Lost within a labyrinth
the stifling darkness crept.
However can I find myself,
the child like waif wept?
Identity established
through the many roles she played.
Mother, daughter, lover:
who am I?
she mournfully prayed?
Never really knowing
acceptance, love or life.
The only thing she really knew
was being the faithul wife.
Miraculously, the haze lifted
the day he found someone else.
That was the day
the lost woman child finally found
herself.