Kilroy Is Still Here

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. - Thoreau

you can kill my body

mock my principles and dreams

disappoint my heart

stretch my neck

but you'll never touch my faith and soul

not even as i swing and sway

from the crooked, creaking, rotting, gallows pole

we all have to grow old

what the heck

Author's Note

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine-trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." - Thoreau