New Poem from Eric Wells entitled "Greener on the Other Side". Follow him on Twitter @SoPoeticWellz21

I could have been better....

Me?,With no doubt, I could have stacked money

To cool my physical

While my soul burns, buried in the urn of life...

I could be the type to hype up the stereo types

Of grouping cultures in one phrase,

Letting the hatred rage toward

"The Man"

I could be.... But why?

Instead I choose to bleed ink from the gift

Of my mind, through a pen...

I could have done better,

It's true

Good or Bad,

Accepting my sins, immaturity,

And the secrets of my mind..

I could be picture book like,

One sided without dimensions

Or jaded with life's dementia..

A twisted disturbed individual..

Or perhaps, simple minded and blinded

I could have been like others,

Once upon a time, I worshiped the shine

And dreamed of the glamor..

Looking back, that could have been me..

So mirror I ask, "What do you see?,"

I briefly pause then answer myself...

"I could have been many things, But more important

Is..... What I will be"

*Follow me to the pastures of the other side*