An example of Lyric Poetry, “All You Know” is a self-talk done in blues form. The words are taking the wisdom of a friend and instilling them as one’s own mantra of a new anti-discipline: letting oneself go. It is part of the narration character’s backstory in the “An Empty Cup of Doom” novella and appears in the “First Shards of Broken Glass” chapbook.
“ALL YOU KNOW”
when the clouds get heavy
don’t they rain
when the clouds get heavy
they just go ahead and rain
when the weight
of the world
is on your shoulders
and all you know is pain
you can cry
just like the clouds
you can cry
when the sun gets tired
don’t it sleep
when the sun gets tired
it just lays right down and sleeps
when the dark
of the night
falls upon your soul
and all you know is grief
lay to die
just like the sun
and let it die
maybe the moon will rise
maybe the stars will fall
when i look to the skies
i realize
after all this time
that i know nothing at all
when the clouds get heavy
don’t they rain
when the clouds get heavy
don’t they rain
when the clouds get heavy
they just go ahead and rain
when the weight
of the world
is on your shoulders
and all you know is pain
you can cry
just like the clouds
you can cry
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