Character Flaws

This started as a short poem. One paragraph. That was all it needed. And then I ended up writing more the next time around. Here are both the poems, because they're both very different in what they mean to me:

Character flaws: I :


My only sin
Is not being sin cera
For marble still has it easy.
Humans,
On the other hand
Are chipped in places and ways
Marble could never take
and still stand.

I'm standing.

Character flaws: II :

My only sin
Is not being sin cera
For marble still has it easy.
Humans,
On the other hand
Are chipped in places and ways
Marble could never take
and still stand.

I'm standing.

So is my friend.

We're not chipped in mirror images.
That would have been easy.
Counterproductive even.
For easy come and easy go
Isn't just a cliche.
And I'd like our friendship to last
Therefore, it must be a task
To keep it standing.

I'm still standing.

So is my friend.

Her screams
My silent outcry
My word, sword
Her tears run dry

Still standing

A man
And three of us to tango
Hurt, broken
Flirt, let go

Still standing

That bitch, whore
Aggresive, passive
One day, live let live, distance
The next, joint at the hip

Still standing

We are chipped
But we make it work
You don't have to be sin cera
To be sincere
And keep standing.

I don't want to lose.

You lash out at me
Compensating for fear:
Yours,
With anger:
At me.
Not realising
That they don't operate with the same currency.

Your fear takes from you
What you can never buy back
With anger;
For all love lost in the world
Was lost between these two.

The way the two
Of us
Are losing.

Title of late night musings: The 'H' word

Hormonal

One word
Many characters

Hormonal

An insult to my opinion
A shackle that's heavier than you'd think an invisible thing could be.

Hormonal

An addition to a stereotype
More exasperating that you'd think a description could be.

Hormonal

An excuse I've come to use
More addictive than you'd think social conditioning could be.

Hormonal

An explanation always good enough
More frequent than you'd think that time of the month could come.

And I still don't understand why that's a relevant consideration.
For anything.