WISER

I remember your influence,

I can see you growing older and wiser,

only one way to go right?

Cars speeding on the highway bother me,

I don't drink and drive,

I did a few times have drinks and drive,

I was told that the limit was two drinks an hour by a barman,

It was from a bar in a building my father owned,

I kept to two drinks or under that per hour, most often under,

again just a few times, mostly I drank soda when out.

When it was later clarified to me that it was one drink an hour,

I was enlightened that you cannot trust people,

or worse yet was the possibility that people were malicious,

You need to test information and people.

I got pulled over in a road check

but fortunately was under the legal limit for driving intoxicated,

I was taking a friend to a bar a few towns over,

I had to take a cab home, and ditch the car on the road though

I learned to never even have a drink and drive,

and to basically avoid the drink as much as possible,

I was never a drinker,

I never even smoked pot too much,

I explored psychadelics and consider myself gifted when it comes to tripping,

while others would not be hallucinating very much,

I would be going through enormous psychadelic vistas.

They're about to legalize Marijuana use in Canada,

I live a good life.

Memory is a kind of propriety,

forgetting you took me years,

but I remember your influencing my life,

Only one way to go, right?

I can see you getting older and wiser.

Poem and image © 2016 Peter Kaleb Theodoropoulos aka Rockwell Wilder