By John Patrick Robbins
Live your work but not as I before you.
Don’t allow a good time become a addiction.
Forgive yourself rather than carry the burden of guilt.
Don’t allow others fucked up actions scar your existence.
Never listen to the ignorant that will place there labels upon you.
The only true whores are those who settled to please another.
You are human , and to be so means you will stumble many times along the way.
Don’t allow fear to cast your choices.
Don’t believe you cannot be more than the role they have given you.
A man’s worth is judged in his effort not his failures.
Love while you can.
And embrace the moments instead of curse the past.
Regret is part of life.
Death is always a promise.
So don’t keep inside what can be said today.
Remember those that taught you.
From love or from pain we can learn much either way.
Don’t become bitter.
Write as yourself for no one needs a watered down copy of another who probably didn’t understand themselves to begin with.
Read as much as you can and live even more.
Take a back road over the quickest route.
Don’t worry how others may view.
Love while you can drink as you will and die as we must.
Don’t cry over mistakes.
There is always a fool to be consumed by regret.
He wrote what you are reading now
Live it before you write.
That is my only advice.
John Patrick Robbins is often referred to as a outlaw poet who’s work has been published with Romingos Porch , Red Fez, Piker Press, Blognostics, Horror Sleaze Trash , The Rye Whiskey Review , Outlaw Poetry Network, Inbetween Hangovers , Your One Phone Call, Blue Pepper, Boned Magazine, The Dope Fiend Daily, Spill The Words , and Synchronized Chaos. His work is always unfiltered.
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