I've nothing left to prove.

My ego
and manhood
has been comfortably
watching Hallmark movies
with my wife
for years.

Boosting your ego
is a senseless
waste of energy.

Don't self subscribe.

Allow others to
subscribe to you.

In my field of 36 years of heavy highway construction?

Your ego
would wilt in the summer sun
along with you.

Again,
I have nothing left to prove to anyone in this life.

My 50+ year old ego needs no stroking.

It's called security.
It's called confidence.

And a confident man I am.

Firmly seated into the spine-
Hundreds and hundreds...

Pages of my words for eyes to dine-
To fall asleep with while reading in bed.

Book form one day ?
Not for money, not for gain-

Not for "I told you so's" to say
Not for notoriety and not for fame.

For my children !
A piddly royalty check without fuss-

For my grandchildren
"Oh Look,
Pops - Poppa is still giving to us" with smiling faces.

A legacy of my words-
Days of great and jubilant times-

As if I were flying high with the birds-
And the nights where I struggled for reason and rhyme.

I won't mind being gone, you see-
I just don't want to be forgotten....

I'd just love if one of my poems could help someone see a bit more clearly-
The bite of their apple was a bit less rotten.

So, paperback I hope for one day-
I'd like this for so many reasons-

Not one of them is for the pay-
But, just to be a book on your nightstand for one....

heck,
   for all seasons.

"What was he thinking while inking this write" ?
"Was he down by where the land meets the sea" ?

"Was he at the Hospice garden where he took great delight" ?
"What was David/Pops/Poppa thinking when he wrote this.....

was he
   thinking of me ?

Oh sky of grey...
travel on your
eastward way.

The soaring birds
against your canvas ...
they catch my eye.

At lights end,
and twilight
settles in...
another day
I bid goodbye.

My tired body
on my bed I lay.
Dreams of waking for yet ....
another day.

An ode for
tommorow and
the roots that
it may lay.
Tonight I sleep
with hopes that
I will see
another
tomorrow
after, today.