Pick Up Pieces Poem by John Sensele

Pick up pieces once toppled from a pedestal, dust off the seat of your pants
If an uppercut should lay you down
Because in a split second loss of concentration you uttered incoherent chants
Stepped on sensitive toes and well mannered chaperones expelled from their brown town.

Pick up pieces whenever you lower your guard
Your knees crumble and tremble
As laminae of stamina from your mitochondria card
Opponents more and more gamble and grumble.

Pick up pieces lost when unrequited love
Backfires as a jilted lover's ire
Singes hinges of love ashes from creature comforts you can't save
Because eros exclusive mining rights have opted to retire.

Pick up pieces scattered over a wide radius like sand grains
Blown away by a hurricane that levels intellectual schemas
Extinguished by abuse and misuse by strains
You invite when focus feeds on misdeeds of blue cinemas.