Saturday, December 17, 2005

I’d Sooner Date Your Shadow

If only Fate would commit
To what irony would see fit,
But then you’d be smothered by your own wasted breath.
So in honor of your perfection,
And to prevent a resurrection,
I’d love to mark your time of death.

You would want that right?
For me to pay attention to details?

You were always right.
You were always right.
You were always right.
You were always rightfully ignored by all of your imaginary friends
Despite your desperate attempts to impress them.

But
I will support you.
I’ll be the couch you’re laying down on
When the psychologists announce that
You’re clinically insane.

I will heal you
I’ll be the surgeon for your heart transplant
Because studies show that black holes
Fail to give adequate circulation
Fear not. As always,
The bill’s on me.

I’d give you the best care.
I’d give you the best care.
I’d give you the best care.
I’d give you the best charismatically aggressive anthem that my vocal chords ever would have dared to recite.
With a tone that could reach your elegant ears
and words that would ignite the airwaves ferrying them.
And your eyes will see truth.

You have the most beautiful eyes.
You have the most colorful eyes.
You have the most sobering eyes.
You have the most sadistic isolating stare that would cause God Himself to cry…
Out of self-pity

We are both train wrecks
But I will stop dead on my tracks
And in a shower of sparks and deafening din
I will shout to the world of mice and men
“I am no Jesus”
And I will proclaim to the cities
“I am no Caesar”
And I will tell to the people
“I am no James Dean”
And I will whisper to myself, most quietly of all:
“I am no better than you”


Maverick
02:52:12 PM

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wish to say something profound but nothing comes to mind.
I wish to say something sarcastic but that would ruin the moment.
So I guess I just won't say anything.

Anonymous said...

I like the last line

Anonymous said...

why not james dean?

Anonymous said...

that made me happy. just wanted to say that

Anonymous said...

excellent poetry here-- confuses me, but I like it anyway

knight_racer979 said...

Heather, this one should go to ELO or Stone Soup, which ever you were asking about earlier.

Terrific poetry. Wish I understood the deeper meaning. Oh well, sucks to be shallow.

Anonymous said...

Eh, it could use some revising. In parts it's a bit cliched and melodramatic.

Maverick said...

It could use revising.

Anonymous said...

Don't you mean "lying down on"?
I'm sorry that I'm so obsessive as this.

Maverick said...

Yes. As I said, revision is needed. But picky reader is an appreciated connoisseur of the written word.

Maverick said...

Sir, if you are as barbaric with a pen as you are with your tongue,I must commend you on the chore that last comment must have been to write.

just kidding.