Easyspeak
so ...
demanding
she told me to stop
to stop 'thinking like a poet' ...
but what the hell did that mean?!?
she added unto, thusly -
'stop creating Tolkein worlds' (verbatim)
that hit home ...
any other fool with a pen would take it as compliment
but I knew her too well ...
I knew exactly what she meant
and kindness was not the dish being served
'you are not so tragic as you think', she informed me
'not so heartsick as your dragon kingdoms' ...
'or their celibate heroes' ...
(my vision and ire, flooding red)
but I am a poet, you see
not by choice or motive or even pitiful circumstance
and 'twas so easy for her to say
as my heart thrummed for naught but her
and her heart thrummed ...
for him.
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