Think Before You Leap Poem by John Sensele

Faith forte elevate
Doubt and crazy clout serrate
Prudence and providence conflate and inflate

In the plan for the days ahead
Long before headlong you spin your head
Contorting your creed andbruising the bed

In the household with too many kooks
Who know not the worth of Biology books
Believed hunted and haunted by Sicilian spooks

Serving puree pasta in the Mediterranean
To migrants and stowaways Crimean, Guinean or Nigerian
To cleanse urchins on dinghies of tin

When to the marvels of the new year you awake
Jettisoning dream and leftover cake
Wrapped in aluminium foil by mistake

Cos common sense sleeps
Confusion in your mind weeps
Direction from your skull somnolence sweeps

Pumping into your pancreas and pate precaution
Pruning procrastination and provocation
That deride faith devotion

Until to your detriment the year dies
Achievement cries
And your soul teems with lies

Too late?
Not if you elect to protect and perfect
Remnant of the year to project

Beneficial bearing on the right course
Returning to right source
Engaging God in a tete-a-tete direct discourse.