Looking Grim

Better than… acting

As if you know the truth

Like life you’re attacking

But do you follow through

Or are you snacking

Leaving it to your stunt crew



Better than… showing

The whole damn world

Where we’re going

What’s the word?

Death

Cheated but defeated?

Blind and deaf

Yet we all meet it



Better than… knowing

Tricks are for kids

But we’re growing

Too big

Bigger you think

Than what’s to come

Kool-Aid to drink

Or you run



Better than… towing

Wisdom and knowledge

Where you going

For me it wasn’t college

Call me confused and lost

If you’re not going to die

Why carry the cross

Jigsaw’s my guy



Better than… lacking

The cure

Success is tapping

But I learned

What’s happening

And so I’ll burn



Because it’s more than a look

It’s me

That cooks

And I see

But was not shook

At what has to be



A blessing and a sin

My brother’s keeper

Better than… looking grim

A look at the Grim Reaper



Copyright © 2011, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.