What is This?

One week I didst not care
One night and suddenly
I needeth thee like the air
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Tis so unfair, princess fair
To have never seen
Yet be hung up on thy airs
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Is this just desperation?
A predicament
Caused by my own inhibitions?
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Is this all just myself infatuated
I could swear i’m not
But the jury the facts still collating
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Agh! So this is what it feels like
To be separated by miles
And not know if they think alike
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I never cared – not one bit
But somehow that all changed
In the end of a dream
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Now I’m trying to find the switch
To turn off this habit
Anything, just give me the fix
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So hung up on you
Trying to shut it out.
Don’t know if I can make it through

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Story behind the poem:

Nothing much. Just back to writing after a bit of a break 🙂

How Do I Hate Thee

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
All those sleepless nights spent staring at dying lights
Half-written emails of generic code
The clash, the battle, the darkness that followed
The time, pain, and sacrifice
The truth which was laced in mental lies
Always knowing it was vain, still played again
Still hate the way you didst my wild heart tame
So infuriating, how you set me up
To knock me down
Then pick my pieces up off the ground
Oh! how I detest this lure but it calls me anyway
I jump believing it will somehow change
Sick and tired of wearing my heart on my sleeve
When years on and I don’t know how you feel
I know so much, but still know so little
You know less yet belittle
Yet somehow I’m drawn to this
Like superman addicted to kryptonite – my nemesis
Mainline drug user risking overdose – can’t quit
Catch twenty-two, can’t live without it, can’t live with it
It’s sending me out of my mind

I don’t think I’ll get out of this alive
So I guess I’ll curse your name with my dying breathe
As it exits this lonely labouring chest

 

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Story behind the poem:

What can I say? Slightly inspired by 10 Things I Hate About You – How doth I loathe thee, let me count the ways. 🙂

photo by V Fouche