Poet’s Showcase: ‘Counterfeit’ by Mike Penner
Counterfeit
By Mike Penner
Some say
A woman searches for love
A man for self-respect
True or not
for what do they search together?
Beautiful self-respect?
Self-respecting beauty?
Some say
In the end
a woman and a man together search for money
Because
along the way
a woman loses the love she’s found
a man murders his own self-respect
And money can take the place of both