Sweat (part II: A Pause For Breath) (poem)

By Luke Labern

II
[A Pause for Breath]

Warning: if you lapse into
Cliché in deciphering my
Words, you will not be
Able to follow.

Only those with a clear mind
-- A free mind --
Will understand this poem,
Or my writing, or me

In general. I require
A certain way of thinking --
Honesty, not persona.
Truth, not what's unimportant.

No celebrity, no rumour,
No gossip -- only truth.
That is the only way I know
As learnt in my youth.

I can only trace the
Path I took to get here --
But I truly believe
That all can arrive.