i wish you to feel these words sting as they flow from my hands
it's come time for me to tell you
i give up
you've won
and if you want a trophy for your magnificent victory
take my joy
it looks nice on the mantle
so close to the fire
that's burned the smile off my face
these hands
they don't make
poems to think about
music to listen to
they make letters to look at
sounds to hear
none better than a street sign
or the bang of a gun
they're of a person to gawk at
to direct your banter and derision to
the hair just a little too long
the eyes just a little too blind
to see
just how good i have it
good enough to not complain
not to make this poem
these letters
but here i am
take me as is
or return me for a refund
of your wasted time
how deep do you have to dig
into your seemingly endless supply
of ignorant idiocy
to try to make me think that you are
somehow
a better man than i?
because i know that as you read this
you think
"oh he thinks he's cool.
he writes in his precious little notebook,
he likes to make something for his little internet friends
that pathetic loser
with no life
and that laptop"
it makes me sick to think of you
having a solitary thought outside of what is
cool
hip
whatever will keep you up in the ranks
of the other morons that drone around this prison
Birds of a feather flock together.
that, sir, is why I avoid your ways
that is why I am writing thi
what's in a muse
i've never had one.
is it when a masterpiece falls out of the sky
and into your hands
like a child from a stork?
i'll tell you
i don't see many storks around here
it's a bit too cold
a bit too dark
maybe a little bit painful
for them to drop those little baby muses
into the hands of someone so young
so unskilled
so ungifted.
to one without status
the storks stay at bay
for they follow the cheering of the crowd
and not the crying of the broken
We fight these wars, we forget the ones who died
Brotherhood done to fratricide.
Man and woman drop dead over the desert sand
The falling snow
The churning waves.
Loss of humanity and human disregarded
Cultures destroyed, tradition discarded.
We slay those seen as enemies.
Those who say that God is the only one.
Yet they play God, deciding who lives
And who dies.
Left to rot,
On that desert sand
Falling snow
To sink under the churning waves
I've lost my faith in humanity
eight times, now.
We've been reduced
to nothing.
The supposedly all dominant human race
built on ignorance
and hypocrits running wild.
When will we set ourselves straight?
How?
This pandemic
of the human condition
has no cure
unless we are to be our own medicine.
What are the "terms and conditions"
to your respect?
To be a sheep?
With you, the Shepard?
Should I just follow you,
do what you say,
with a complete disregard,
for myself?
OH, how selfish of me,
to be concerned
about my own well-being!
So tell me,
do you respect me,
or am I just another pawn?
Some people fight with guns,
fists,
swords.
I fight with a pen.
Art is my weapon.
Pens,
pencils,
paint,
a guitar,
a computer,
a piano,
a bass.
I win my wars with
paper and pixels,
strings and keys.
Art is a gift, and my notebook gives that gift to me.