Cliché

I don’t like clichés’

Though I can’t seem to avoid them  

 And I don’t want to be ‘absent from reality ’

  Yet I should ‘lower my expectations’

As far as originality;

For a while anyway

I won’t try to ‘reinvent the wheel’

I reckon I’ll ‘’just join the global conversation”

Not ‘bury my head in the sand’

 And ‘think myself superior”

 By no means am I “a renaissance man”  

 I should just ‘Face reality head on,’

“Move the envelope along”

After all “There’s nothing new under the sun”

So why ‘muddy the waters

 “And think myself deep”

“I’m just an ordinary man”

“No I take it back; I’m special”

“A voice to share with the world”    

“A force to be reckoned with”

And who gives a gosh darn what anybody thinks,

“I’m an artist”

Underappreciated  

 Wow, cliché’s surround me like mind-fields

“I can’t see the forest through the trees”

“Nothing really changes in the darkness”

I just lost my train of thought...  

‘Moving forward,’