these words
these words will not
- hold you close
- open you up
- brush tears away gently
- help you abandon reality
for just a little bit
i’m not trying to
- console you
- get into your pants
- make you love me
- make you forget this
this reality
quite the opposite
i don’t write of
- men in capes who save the day
- knights in armour who save the day
- witless damsels who are the day
unless the occasions calls for it of course
i don’t write of
- one-sided-facts
- happily-ever-afters
- things-without-pain
i write truths
i simply observe
and word my truths
trying anyways
i can’t help it
- that this voice is gentle
- that i don’t rhyme
- that these words are simple
that i like
- that these words are simple
- that they don’t rhyme
- that this voice is gentle
but believe me i write
that these truths are hard
trying anyways
if that’s too much to take in
to swallow, just remember that
these words
these hard words, will not
hold you up
quite the opposite
they’ll tear you down
just remember that
i’m not trying to romance you
i’m trying to slap you
or better yet, choke you
…with these words