THE PUNCHLINE IN MY JOKE

I like a good, prolonged, laugh
Mostly prompted by silly, unrealistic, stuff

Makes my spirits awaken, from a day so rough

Makes my chest enlarge, akin to a gargantuan graph

I like it much better, however, when I’m the joke-cracker

After folk get so serious, I be the circuit breaker

Sometimes, and those times are many, no one laughs

So for consolation, they tell me “aha, very funny”

…and then give me that ‘dry look’, and keep quiet

I soldier on, my motivation; a constant punch line

A punch line I well understand, a punch line I have encountered,

A punch line I…

Without the punch line, my joke, if at all,

Would be another foolish statement, rather fatal

Since, better a silent fool, as they are considered wiser

Yet my determination is to be called, “Yes Sir”

See now why I need the punch line closer? And not far at the border?

See why all need to know this punch line, to understand the joke?

God catapults my life, makes me go yonder, to resonate far and beyond

Without Him, life is meaningless, lifeless

He is the punch line in my joke!

© Peter Mwangangi, 2012