Around here

Sun shining down

Don't be so shallow

Clouds hanging round

Don't be so hollow

Intermittent speech 

Of bird songs

Why can't you fathom

Why I hang around here 

Here is my place at the church steps

Here is where I smoke my cigarettes

Have my tea and keep good company

This is why I hang around here

I'm not elusive or mysterious

I am transparent and bleed thickly

On to paper and will from my pen

I write it so quickly 

That's why I hang around here

You may tell me to stop

And tell the rain not to drop

And order the clouds to move and shift

But I still hang around here