# Amen

By [Poetry in Motion Sickness](https://paragraph.com/@poetryinmotionsickness) · 2025-01-19

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a radio voice clicks on  
on a rainy morning's sunrise  
barely visible through the coffee sipping grog  
awakening adrenaline in the pinstriped prizoner  
of return calls and business lunches,  
over-worked and under-played,  
as he exercises frustration  
and flirts with ideas like  
"there must be something more"  
than the chit chat of knit wits  
in the claustrophobic confines of elevators  
"there must be something more"  
than strolling back to the cage by two  
when today's files (which haven't been filed)  
are the day of reckoning you knew  
would be coming to haunt, to chide,  
to fumble with the toys about you,  
stalling, stagnating, while the click clock tick tocks  
deadlines, dead lines, lines for the dead,  
in heat like southern Texas  
precious presure swelling  
until the prisoner like popcorn pops and drops  
and is served a a small rectangular box  
for acquaintences to poke and peep  
and remind themselves of the quaintences  
of days that have passed both sun and snow  
"there must be more"  
then penetrating deep into Mother Earth  
on a day like today  
hoping that some seed, some morsel,  
has not yet been tainted  
"there must be more"  
than starting again  
the tense struggle, to grasp, to breathe,  
to find a niche and inhabit it,  
hibernating, hoarding life's pleasures  
there must be a way"  
to jump start the creature within the creature  
that urgently needs to be needed  
or invent a new distraction that helps you forget,  
no matter how well you build you tenements,  
your roof will eventually leak  
even in your harbor,  
in the safe haven of your home,  
great dangers mustbe faced,  
right here, right now  
"there must e a way"  
to taste the madness that drives creation,  
to allocate some wretched scrap of security,  
and yet survive  
the daily dulldrum death that waits,  
lurking just outside your office window.

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