A Love Poem

A Love Poem by Janna is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

This poem is meant to be read aloud. So wherever and whenever you are - despite awkward and creeped out glances - please open your mouth and let these words flow through them. The sound is a very important element in much of poetry - something that I haven't employed often enough.

A Love Poem

If there were a way to have never met you…

Who would I be?

I am just a roll in the hay – a complete accident, of course.

But that’s not fair, because here I am, here she is…

I sit on the bench, awaiting my turn

Wishing my glare could penetrate

Your shield of utter disinterest.

Because I cannot say – it is far too difficult

For me to mutter unintelligibly under my breath

When you went away you changed…well ruined…my life

And there are no repercussions

And I hate you.

But I am today and can be then

So I will not take the bait and focus on fate.

Because If I had not met you

She would not be here

Little rolli polliness

My glad little image of me

Taking hobbling steps

That could represent your

Awkward display of disaffection.

So you are a means to an end

And despite this scrimmage before a jury

Of my peers and family

I am in a hurry to be quite

Finished with you.