Thursday, September 6, 2012

I Can't Write You A Poem

I can't write you a poem
It wouldn't be right
I can write you a letter
And sign it with exes
I can text you by the hour
With cute punctuation
But I won't write you a poem
It wouldn't be right

It wouldn't be right
To think that I'm able
To sum you all up
In a few petty words
It wouldn't be right
To try to tell anyone
"Look at this poem
And you'll know I feel"

I can write poems of heartbreak
And poems of sorrow
I'll write poems of fury
And poems of joy
My poems of politics
Will slice like a scalpel
I can make you laugh loudly
With poems that mean nothing

But I won't write you a poem
Because it can't be sufficient
I won't write you a poem
Because I'll fail miserably
I won't write you a poem
For you're more than a poem
I can't write you a poem
It wouldn't be right