If You Want to Run

I’m tired of being told
Walk now
Run when you’re more old
I wish I were more bold
And just said now
I want to do
Not to practice
Because doing is practice
Doing is making mistakes
And then correcting them

I want to write books and poems
Not to write about books and poems
I want to do business
Not sit in a lecture about why people sell
Hell

I ain’t got the time
And my patient's not that kind
I know it may seem that I just whine
But I feel that my life is mine
And it seems like such a crime
To just sit and wait
And to placate
the authority

Into the sun
Like a bullet out of a gun
I want to run