My Will Of Won’ts Of These Words Poem by Arsene Hodali

these words
these words will not
- hold you close
- open you up
- brush tears away gently
- help you abandon reality

for just a little bit

i'm not trying to
- console you
- get into your pants
- make you love me
- make you forget this

this reality
(quite the opposite)

i don't write of
- men in capes who save the day
- knights in armour who save the day
- witless damsels who are the day

unless the occasions calls for it of course

i don't write of
- one-sided-facts
- happily-ever-afters
- things-without-pain

i write truths
i simply observe
and word my truths
(trying anyways)

i can't help it
- that this voice is gentle
- that i don't rhyme
- that these words are simple

that i like
- that these words are simple
- that they don't rhyme
- that this voice is gentle

but believe me i write
that these truths are hard
(trying anyways)

if that's too much to take in
to swallow, just remember that
these words
these hard words, will not
hold you up
(quite the opposite)
they'll tear you down

just remember that
i'm not trying to romance you
i'm trying to slap you
or better yet, choke you
...with these words