September Exhibition- Ghost

——The Artist called GHOST——

Painter, Sculptor, Poet, Writer,

all of this to be sure……..

Born where the Shannon rises,

lived from shore to shore to shore.

12 years of living in cities,

countries by the score*,

Then tragedy struck,

my entire world shook,

Enough I said, no more*!

So I ran back home to Ireland,

and crawled deep into the muck.

Where I destined to become a hermit

as I closed my door on luck!

I’ve had over 30 different occupations,

that’s 70 different jobs,

succeeding at almost all of them, I think,

except the one in my heart!

Now I’ve been unemployed for 20 years**,

studying Ireland, passing time,

struggling to keep my mind intact***,

all that’s left to me* is, MY ART!!!

*Artistic license… lol.

**see lines 7+8.

***I had occasion recently to see a psychiatrist, Re: Unemployment Disability, where she unfortunately diagnosed me as imperfectly ‘NORMAL’,, lol, true story.