The Flow

“They” say “go with the flow”

But the flow sometimes fails to follow

Perhaps because of a “Florence” or a “Frank”

Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine the

Flow flowing even if my life machine

Has mechanical mis-flows

Sometimes flows in a “Joe”

And I say, “Hey Joe, what do you know….?!”

And he knows to say “just go with the flow”

After all that is how we got here, isn’t it?

      Someone met someone and went with “the flow”

Then something          flowed              into

        Some         other thing    and “Presto!”

Here we are…

Sometimes the flow is turbo

Sometimes the flow is slow

But I know the flow is the flow

It exists on its own “gO”

It is not dictated to

Nor is it directed by YOU or for You

Like the wind it just flows on its own BLOW!

In the grand scheme of our life flow

No “Florence”

Nor “Frank”

Not even ‘Joe” who thinks he knows

Can block the blow of the flow

For the flow bows to no one you know

Despite delusional attempts at adaptations

Dismissed as delicate solutions

To inescapable life situations

Long before “Florence” or “Frank” and

Even know it all “Joe” found their very own flow

Abide in a flowy lucidity

Flow with mortality like a fraternity

Then pass it on for posterity…

So live, love and laugh on the gO!

Because it’s the only way to come into “the flow” …

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and a literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self”  & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of  Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc…  He has been published in prestigious publications such as Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–