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Up Is My Name

 

Up

is my

name

 

Up is my name, currently going down

the page as I write this. “Get Up”

they all say, but you can’t be so crude

and just GET ME

(even if I’m asleep).

“Up Up and away!”, they exclaim

repeating my name as they point to the sky,

or

“It’s going Up!” they will say,

oh yes, it does happen, but

what goes UP must come down

even when I feel really good.

“What a beat-up”

No, don’t beat me up,

that’s not what you meant?

Oh well then let’s get down.

Down is a friend

who I like to avoid

even though we do need each other.

I’m high and I’m tall,

proud and erect,

Up is my name,

look Up, it is me!

Photo by Matteo Kutufa on Unsplash

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