From Day To Day Poem by John Yaws

They tell me I am jaded- Dreams long ago have faded...
Of what most people call the normal life.
A job, a home, a family; it seems are not for me
I guess I've made a stranger of my wife.

They say I am a selfish man, and many do not understand.
I'll give a man the shirt right off my back.
What I once thought was living free, now has proved a cage to be.
Somewhere along the way I lost the track.

I do my talking with my pen, ‘tis only then you see within,
And find somewhere deep inside there lies a heart.
My solitary ways, I guess, have really made my home a mess-
It looks like things will finally come apart.

But I don't know a way to be, except the way that makes me, me-
So I'll just let the chips fall where they may...
And if I get the worst of it, the punishment's the one that fits.
And I'll try to live my life from day to day.