'Shitbum'

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Thoreau

I've become the man i never thought i'd be

the guy i never cared to see

the one people point at and tell their children never to be 

the one they claim is off his rocker and out of his tree

yes, i am now he

how could this happen

how could this be

how could i not see

what will be will be

whether 'tis fate or destiny

either way, i am now that one

the one with the name that sums it up perfectly

that word isn't mum

the name that they disaffectionately deem, 'shitbum'

Author's Note

"None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty." - Thoreau