Didactic Hopes

Can these words rise

Up to the days that

Lie in the future

Around the corner

And flat on the pavement

Where the people walk

And talk

The poetry

Or words

Combines

To make meaning

Significant maybe

But timely

Indeed

Second Hand Substance

Second hand substance

Is what he took

Back then

When he was older

But younger too

He had not an idea

Or a clue

Of what the substance could do

But he took it

And complied with the rules

He walked in the herd

Like a mule