Writing
So, I was going to bed, but then I couldn't sleep, so I wrote these instead. I haven't written poetry in a while and I usually write rhyming stuff so please bare with this free verse.
North and south
Hot and cold
Good and Bad
Imaginary division by thin invisible lines.
To cross is to change.
Venture forward if you dare,
But do not stay long,
You are not wanted.
‘Only’, the word is said again, ‘only’.
He was only a boy,
She was only a teacher,
He was only a Muslim.
Only two days, two months, two years.
Bare minimum, base definitions,
Package it all nicely,
Defeat the purpose,
Ruin the meaning.
It’s only a poem.
North and south
Hot and cold
Good and Bad
Imaginary division by thin invisible lines.
To cross is to change.
Venture forward if you dare,
But do not stay long,
You are not wanted.
‘Only’, the word is said again, ‘only’.
He was only a boy,
She was only a teacher,
He was only a Muslim.
Only two days, two months, two years.
Bare minimum, base definitions,
Package it all nicely,
Defeat the purpose,
Ruin the meaning.
It’s only a poem.