Bipolar is not particularly good
For humility
Especially when you hit the highs

I love mystic flight
I often stare the skies

But please, O life, keep me grounded too
I can't figure out the deepest whys
Like everyone else, I am one who dies

All I ever really wanted to do
With the poems
And teaching
And basketball
And my marriage
And the letters
And studying
And traveling
And political efforts
And religious ideas
And philosophy
And friendship
And fatherhood

And life itself


Is to be one who tries.

Als Ick Kan journeys on!