Poems For Your Perusal: Even More Alpha Poetry

As soon as you get back

Please give me a call

I need to hear your voice

I haven't cried lately.

Being weird

Is an art form

It doesn't happen

By accident

It doesn't happen

Suddenly

It is cultivated

Through years

And years of practice.

Could it be?

Am I actually happy?

I think I am

And it's all your fault.

Thank you.

Daily toils

And constant struggles

Thankfully

You've got my back.

Even I can see that

Some people should never be

Allowed to love each other.

It's bad for the universe.

Fill 'er up

I'll take all I can afford.

Better yet

Half a tank is quite enough

I don't want to seem greedy

Or go broke.

Good grief

Was there ever such a thing?

If so then

It exists in the ability

To move on

And move forward

Without ever forgetting.

How is it that

We ended up here

In a desert

When the map said

We were headed

For the stars.

I'm not here right now

Try me again later

I may return

If I miss what I've lost.

Join for free

We won't spam you.

Well, maybe just a little.

After all

We're not running

A charity here.

The best things in life

Have price tags.

Kind of like

We never left

But different

Because we did.

Long time coming

Easy going

Life is short.

May I have this dance?

I promise not

To step on your toes

More than twice

Per measure.

Not only that

But I can

Pat my head

Rub my belly

Hop on one leg

And say the alphabet

– backwards! –

While thinking of you.

What does that say

About us? 

On my way to the store

I realized I forgot

Why I was going

In the first place.

I know I need something

But I guess I just don't care.

Piece of cake, he says

Easy for him to say

He knows what he's doing

And I write poetry

Not exactly

Apples and oranges.

Quiet in the library

There are books

Dreaming of becoming

Made-for-TV movies

Waiting to be ruined

And you wouldn't want

To disturb their slumber.

Roundabout way

Of saying that

I think you're special

When all I have to do

Is say you're special.

Why do I have to

Make things complicated?

Stay a while

Kick your feet back

Pretend like you live here

We don't mind

But don't forget

You're a visitor.

Two days ago

I liked you

Then I realized

I don't know

Who you are

So I clicked again

And just like that

The relationship

Changed.

Up the creek

A sudden downpour

No oars in sight

Badly mended holes

Leaking faster now.

This is going to be

A really bad day!

Very, very much

Immensely

Intensely

Passionately

With all my heart

You fill in the rest.

Wait a minute

Or a lifetime.

Don't worry

I'm not going anywhere

Unless you are.

Xenophobic

Aren't you?

Just because they

Don't speak like you do

Don't look like you do

Don't hate like you do

Doesn't mean that

You're any better.

Yes, it's true

I did say that.

And I'm not sorry.

I was once

But I forgave myself.

Zero chance that I'll ever decide

That you are worth returning to.

I saw where things were headed

And I wasn't even in the picture.

Just because things have changed

Doesn't mean my mind has.