Untitled for Now

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    • For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. -Revolution

    Untitled for Now

    Because I am dull and I don’t shine

    They tell me just to get in line

    But if I stand and if I wait

    I’m not worth half what I am paid

    But if I let loose and throw a fit

    They tell me I’m not worth the risk

    Because I know the words I spit

    Drip like honey and taste like $#!*

    They want songs about birds and bees

    I tell them to go hug a tree

    “Write about passion, pain and love”

    But that’s not what I’m dreaming of

    “We deal in anger and sell heartbreak”

    But if I don’t feel it I’m a fake

    “It’s not who you are it’s what you make”

     I’ve made nothing but mistakes

    The people here all get caught

    Between the hands of a clock

    I just write, but money talks

    A word lasts longer than a thought

    So here’s my words, as yet, unsaid

    It seems tonight my pen has bled

    The drippings of my fragile soul

    It seems some things just can’t be sold 

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    HalfAwake commented on Untitled for Now

    01-09-2012

    Thank you! This was the first poem I showed someone other than my family and I was desperate for feedback. Your poems are very thought provoking too. Reading one of them sends my mind reeling for days:)

    WallsofJericho commented on Untitled for Now

    10-06-2011

    Amazing! This is a very thought provoking piece, but your honesty is what sends your words into harmony. Thank you for sharing!

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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