Lionel Derbyshire Poet ABC

Confidence

Confidence
Poem 
Lionel Derbyshire

A waste of wonder time
In camouflage
Will wear you down.
No pace , less value
It does not comfort you
Like a warm eiderdown.

Time waste 
You drown standing.
Rapid roots grow 
In your boots.
In a worthless place
Where it is only space
Here .. there .. everywhere.

You are at sea
Confused and smoked
And can't swim.
You scratch a leaf
And puff in an ashtray
And call it achieve?

Scared you want
The phone to ring
Your ambitions are
Now detained.
No confidence
And the lack
Will break you down.

A rattlesnake calls
And say
Time for change !
The decoy
Means no blessing
It's repulsion ..

The snake
Will try grace
And waste your ear space.
Then slither back
To it's cave 
After burying you under

Once upon 
In womb time
You wore the crown.
With faith and confidence
A bountiful reminder
You all you have.
It is you have.

Confidence..
Now try
There is still flesh
On your bone
It's up to you.
It is on you
It's all about you.

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