When You Ain't Got Nothin Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Chasing my thirst into the
desert at night,
Otis Redding was right….
"You don't miss the water till the well runs dry"

And marrying the wrong woman
for the second time,
Smokey Robinson was right….
"You better shop around"

Writing my pen empty with the
same old words,
Cat Stevens was right….
"The first cut truly is the deepest"

And living in Macon because
I thought it was safe,
Charlie Daniels was right….
"The devil did come down to Georgia"

Losing my religion only to
seek God again,
Robert Plant was right….
"You can't buy a stairway to heaven"

And when I'm alone and desperate and have
nowhere left to turn,
Bob Dylan was the most righteous of all….
"When you ain't got nothin, you got nothin to lose"

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March,2018)