OFF THE WALL

Before you charge me with a crime

take the time to hear and see my cry

I didn't mean to deface this building

but look closely at what was scribed

......understand why I needed to write

my thoughts onto this brickstone

at towering heights

See,

I didn't have pen or paper

only this rock for chalk

and well, this sidewalk, it wasn't long enough

nor upright enough...

for my lefts to write

the city train couldn't take the length of thoughts in my brain

so I didn't randomly picked my place to scoll

I just turned about face

and I wrote, a poet wrote

let me ask you...

Did you even read the message at all?

Was there a call about an artist putting poetry graffiti on the wall?

See I'll gladly take the charge

but I needed this idea to come to life

so I had to set it off

So charge me

charge me, for my free speech

charge me, for indecency on private property

Charge me, but before you do

Read my piece, So I can be released
and later be free.......

BY LeRoy TNW Goetzendanner