Ziavan's Poetic License

Steadfast

Ain’t no way
You can stay
Make me lay
Me say
Me play
And pay
On this day
Or ever
Because of
What you gave to someone else

Ain’t no way
I’ll stop livin’
When livin’ is art
And art is motion
No notion
Of potential
Beyond the existential
Seams
Condemned residential
Dreams
Because of
What you gave to someone else

Ain’t no way
I’m leasing my soul
To assume your role
I extol
The depth of my virtues (laugh)
No toll
New goal
Because of
What you gave to someone else

don’t be an indian-giver …


Ziavan E. Smith