A Day

When at first for my sins

my day begins

I rise with my sun where life stems from

From then on I'm on the move

to survive and improve

I interconnect, supply, collect

inspire, reject

for the hive and my nest

And then for whatever I'll seek my pleasure

indulged in the vice of the cats and the mice

and bear grudges on those

who maliciously impose

in the sphere

for we are vampires who

parasite to exceed without thought to virtue

Now discipline

being culture's wife

does guide the hand that steers my life

My skin is embroiled

with the years that I've toiled

with my body and mind

and the decadent times

At night I accept that I'd loved and feared

give thanks to the spirit

my health was spared

I pray then

an unspoken prayer

Tomorrow I should take such care