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