NINE

Crippled Iambic Pentameter or Un-Heroic Couplets

Compromise and flexibility
I guess yeah sure that seems right to me
Pride and honor settled in the dust
Laid down beside what's left of my trust

Wasted days and hardly wasted nights
Think it's true you know it's just not right
Simple plans breed deep and dark demands
Wipe your prints clean toss it in the can

I abided your deformities
Crippled by love's voided warranties
Don't know that I hate or I adore
Know it never mattered anymore

They say that you can't fight City Hall
Choose to bang your head against the wall
Do it because you feel it is right
Do it all with all your living might

Unrelenting unrequited love
Unrepentant as what's done is done
Compromise me inexorably
Sure yeah I guess what's to be will be 

Author's Note

Another one from years ago that I've dusted off to lay humbly at your feet...

Reviews

[ChaoticSoul]

This really reminded me of something that should be a song-very lyrical! Which I adore lyrical poetry. I enjoyed the simple rhyme combined with the strong emotion. It balanced this poem well and created a well-structured flow. I think the last stanza is my favorite. It possesses a very *human* quality that only adds to the poem. Well done!

[Kim's Poems]

I enjoyed this piece, like the intriguing emotions in this. Awesome!!!

[emmajoy]

What a muddle of thoughts, what a battle of past and present! You write as you talk, perhaps .. there's a natural flow of words yet at times - not always, a specific meter that's almost disarming. The technicality is lost to me, i can only take it as a poem with images on display.