Quaint Offer

When did I once complete a thought

And view a whole before its pieces?

No... I think the pen just spills a word at times.

Ever blind to what will follow

And much less inclined to know how it will rhyme.

Like some random theatre:

Pieces upon pieces spoken through forgotten lines.

Broken monologues from weak protagonists.

A sinking battleship of paragraphs

Sunken by the seas of indecision.

Claiming blurbs of incoherence as a fruitful vision.

Hollow theatre claiming me and you as bastard kids:

Pitting me on wooden boards

To speak these lines to you

Like if you gave a shit of what I cry for you.

Oh but I'll subtly lie for you

If you can milk a meaning from my plastic feelings

Into fifteen jugs that you can glug

When you need healing.



So here is what I offer you:

A way to pass the time

Though the softer you may disagree

And claim me as the shallow end of honest seas.

How will I save face

And cloud my literary disgrace in a warm embrace?

A window of emotions soon turned sour at your taste.



So here is what I offer you

In all its scope:

A message for the world

Within an empty envelope.

So remove your each and all inflated word clouds

From my sky of hope

And turn your prideful slopes

The hell away from me.

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