Feeding on the things you want, <br />Undaunted. <br />And doing it to flaunt? <br />With hopes to generate stares, <br />To delight in a doing of superficial taunts. <br />To prove whatever it is you think you do, <br />Excites. <br /> <br />Don't... <br />Fall to pieces. <br />Or be the one that weeps. <br />When you discover you are not the priority, <br />On anyone's mind... <br />You'd like to impress in the streets, <br />In clown declining times. <br /> <br />When... <br />Those days don't go your way, <br />Don't fall to pieces. <br />Or be the one that weeps. <br /> <br />When... <br />Blue skies cover with clouds and turn to gray, <br />Don't fall to pieces. <br />Or be the one that weeps. <br /> <br />Biting on nails and getting pale, <br />As rose colored glasses worn... <br />Begin to fail. <br />Don't fall to pieces. <br /> <br />If the bread you nibble on taste as if stale, <br />Don't fall to pieces with a rushing home... <br />To your own jail cell. <br />With a rummaging through other costumes. <br /> <br />Remember this... <br />What you did yesterday, <br />With beliefs you could do it. <br />People today are not as shallow... <br />And can see through it. <br /> <br />And what you represent... <br />In your Superfly garments, <br />Reminds those who have awakened... <br />How lost in space, <br />Those who still chase... <br />The ridiculous. <br />With hopes those days return. <br /> <br />Don't... <br />Fall to pieces. <br />Or be the one that weeps. <br />When you discover you are not the priority... <br />On anyone's mind, <br />You'd like to impress in the streets. <br /> <br />Don't fall to pieces but seek, <br />Your true identity. <br />These are the times, <br />Your mind could use a hefty dose of it. <br />Truth is on the scene and here to prevail.<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-fall-to-pieces/
