CIPHER

CIPHER

1/19/2026

I am more than my words

and more than the skin

that tightly binds me in..

I am more than these pages

and lines that seek to defame me

in your eyes..

I am more than a popularity contest

and a hope that somewhere or somewhen

you stop to sip of good aged wine..

Still,

I am more than aged wine

but much less than whiskey

to am alcoholic mind..

I am more than Alpha and Omega

and less than a God

yet a continuation of end and beginning..

I am more than an offering

or a ridicule of pompous celebration

put down on passing lanes of parchment..

I am more than one man

and less than one woman

who creates life from something small as a seed..

I am more after ceding the battle to write

to please another

when the pleasure of writing is all mine..

I am less than a cipher

and even less

once I have paid the piper

Peace