Intentions

Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readAug 26, 2020

Years ago I
was ambitious,
but nothing
happened and
I forgot to try.

A thousand poems
written in blood.
Only the Void
reads them now.

Plan your life;
hear God laugh.

You can’t give
the wind orders.

It blows whichever
way it wants to go.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.