When You Feel You’re Weak

 

When you feel you’re weak; oh, please don’t lose it,
Don’t take in on the cheek; but, don’t recuse it,
The one, who is the freak; and, would abuse it,
Now you must reach your peak, and not refuse it!

 

You’re quiet as a doe, but, you’re no Dumbo,
A netted shrimp in tow, but, not in Gumbo,
An elephant we know, but not our Jumbo,
It’s time to learn and go, you have the Mumbo!

 

Peter Lowell Paulson
August 13, 2013

 

 

Note: Every poem is inspired.  Whether a poet says it is on not, it is.  What is it that a poet has that comes naturally is rhythm and rhyme.  Why it happens is clueless.  I was listening to Broadway Musical Radio on XM Sirius.  One caught my ear about being “mischievous” .  If you Googled that word you could probably figure out which one it is.  The “cadence” and the “message” caught me.  I started playing around with my own words and this is the result.  PLP