It’s Not Too Late Travis Hupp Looks like I'll have to do things differentlyNo more hitting and missing intermittentlyGotta buckle down and not knuckle underReclaim my mind and unearth wonderHowling dogs and circling batsNew dawn awaits and darkness won't lastYesterday droned on destituteMy meaning got lost andmy muse went mutebut there's a part of me that stillknows what to doPower through and write what's trueWhat's true is I've been stuck herecoming ungluedEyes shut tight conjuring up a better viewthan the sorry sight of theaimless life I've ledletting liars and defilers get in my headEnough of that and enough of losingEnough blood bled andenough ego bruisingI'll limp towards love til I'm fit to outrundemons and downfallswith shackles undoneI've got friends I know would hide mefrom the consequences I've been invitingbut I can face into the fireand find the poems burning down inspiresI always knew I wasn't born to wallowwithout evolving cocooned in squalorWithout challenging the trauma traderswho corrupt you, crush youand leave you crateredSo I say here and now I'm in this fightI'll stop living wrong andfumble towards rightI'll make my mother in Heaven feel proudI'll show up on time toshow what I'm aboutIt's something I learned butforgot to rememberwhen every turn I tookwas another dead enderWhen every trick I knew the devil knew tooWhen tawdry temptation wasa damn heady brewI can't unwaste a single daybut I can pray it's not too lateI can't shoulder sad sick shameso I'm setting out to redeem my nameI'm here and I'll recognize what's mineGrab what I'm given tightwhen stars alignI won't say fuck it I'll say fasterSpeed is my steed for skirting disaster

More from Travis Hupp ↓

• @poetryoftravishupp on Instagram
• His book American Entropy is out now through Atmosphere Press.

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