Thought I Knew and Divine Acidity

Today's another Monday Workshop where I revisit old poems and pretend they're good enough for public consumption. These two entries are oldies, but I believe they have potential. Enjoy.

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Thought I Knew

Here’s the truth

I did love you

False, I lusted after you

Words are hard for me

You know my public school education

Never taught me what television really meant

But I longed for you

Lesbians, L words, libations

I was drunk on you

Like spiked punch

While you kicked and pulled

Until you were free from my gaze

I was like an owl

My eyes full of you

You must have felt invaded

As I tried to land on you

But you let me fall

Allowing me to see the truth

And the floor up close and personal

But just like the old lady 

Who bangs her ceiling at me

I’m over you

My imagination of you

Overshadowed the shallowness you stand ankle deep in

Your personality is Quasimodo’s face

And I know I’m exaggerating

But I have to

You must be demonized if I’m going to find

Someone like who I thought I knew

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Divine Acidity

I tried falling asleep once

I nearly puked the bed

My body, he doesn’t act right

Not like I once knew it to

But I think, think it’s changing on me

Roughing me up

Fighting back after I’ve bullied it

Misused it

But how can I misuse something

I never received a manual for

The Bible never told me so

Was I actually supposed to pay attention in health class

My gym teacher taught me

And he could barely multiply

Up until the break of dawn

suffering because of past mistakes

Gluttony getting the best of me

Perhaps it is the deadliest sin

Who knows if I'll survive

Water don't fail me now

Drench this internal flame

May I be more disciplined in the future

But if I fail allow me the serenity

Of disorienting inebriation

To lull me to sleep 

Past the gates of hell 

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