Like Raindrops

I am not a Buddhist 
(neither was he)

I am a follower
of the neon
light of liberation 

Free of being right
I strive to see

how my poetry 
can hold many 
truths, all of them

sentenced to
death

George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more. 

See all his poems on Tea House here.

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