The Odds Poem by KarlRomeo PierreLouis

I have just begun to fall
I thought I was rid of this since infancy
This debilitating stutter walk
But its not the same now…is it?
I have just begun to fall as a man
Or is it fail as a man….?
The years have been indifferent to me
As the experience of it….

I have just begun to regret with no regret
No mercy for me I have been written off
I was conscious of it, and for it
I felt it leave me…without the kindness of
The dead of night, or the dramatic of a letter
I was awake and attentive to the lost of it

I have just begun to be successful at my failures
Rising high enough to fall into a great deal of …
Misery and shame
Or was it insanity and blame
Whatever it may have been ….
The pain of it knows my name

the Odds