Pushing against the grain

instead of going with the flow,

what does he have to gain;

what is it he doesn’t know?

 

He does know it leads to “fame”

With “in” to win and “me” to show

So get ready for the place of blame

and be sure not to pass go,

 

His fame was “In”-fame-“me,”

so doe-ray-me and doe-si-doe

and Lord Have Mercy

and he had miles to go.

 

Do not collect two hundred coins

and sometimes go to jail

with just a few to visit and no coins

to pay the bail.

 

He wasn’t good at Monopoly,

and playing that game

will not be his fame,

but he lived his life fully

 

having a vocation, a calling

beside a burning bush, falling

to his knees, (off a horse truth

be told) not this world’s fame,

but that is the name

 

of the Realm’s very best game,

not just pushing against the grain

but living with nothing other to attain

but to be a fool in the face of this world’s fame.