Going On Emotion
Going on emotion, a boxer
reels and fights his final round.
Punch-drunk and bloody, his heart
as big as Texas, he struggles
on to land that lucky strike
A mother counting pennies, trying
to stretch her budget for another
cotton blanket for her tiny baby boy,
he's just eight months, the little tyke!
A street musician with his violin
trying to pay his way through college
plays the subways and the coffee shops;
his hopes are high till a policeman
tells the kid to 'take a hike!'
A paraplegic in his wheelchair
doing wheelies in the hallways of
the County General Hospital and
flirting with the nurses, in many ways
they're all alike.
They're going on emotion, and 'no'
is not a part of their vocabulary.
Copyright © Keith Bickerstaffe | Year Posted 2006
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