Chasing My Tail (Poem) (Patreon)

For a while now, I've been commented about how I have reams of my old poetry from high school and college, a lot of which is very therianthropic. I'm sure quite a bit of it isn't very good, but some of it did capture my emotions at the time very well. I'm starting inching closer toward doing a chapbook with the better poems, plus some newer pieces of poetry. This poem dates all the way back from 2002, when I was in college. (And yes, I am that old.) I'll have to edit this stuff before I can release it, but here's a sample of this older work.

Chasing my Tail

Someday, I’ll reach the end.

someday I’ll stop dancing,

and with a sigh I will breathe my last breath.

The darkness will come, and I shall finally rest

in the earth from which I came from.

I will no longer be chasing my tail around in circles.

The dance I came here to preform will be over, 

and as the curtain comes down

I shall  rest in the silence, where everyone goes.

But I'm not ready to go, not ready to pass on.

I refuse to stop dancing, stop fighting,

for I plan to keep living till they yank me off the stage.

I refuse to simply wait for the end.

not when there is so much to do,

even if I seem to keep going around in circles,

I'm going to keep on dancing, keep on going

even if I trip and fall to the floor,

I will stumble back to my feet, and keep going

even if chasing my tail is all I seem to be doing.