written in 2013
Entice me with your words
pierce my walls with meanness
show me you have the power to break another person
yet you refuse.
Show me you have the willpower to stand up
and alone
have the ability to open your door
welcome a stranger
and trust they will not throttle you in your sleep.
Tease me with kisses and polite dialogue,
an intercouse of exchanged language
with kind innuendo but no
biting sting of
regretted words.
Demonstrate your strength
not in feats of power
but in exploits of courage,
the deed which you complete though
you know you’re licked before you start,
see it through.
Toss your speech with abandon
but not your ideas –
your ideals are by your heart
and you live not beside them
but by virtue of them
unto others
though they do not the same.
A vital man with an Achilles heel
I in turn choose not to sever,
a choice my own — as all my acts
are of my own volition.
For I have power too.
As you penetrate, I consume.
As you guffaw, I may also laugh.
As you devastate, I ruin.
As you toy, I play.
As you adore, I love.
I am passionate, above all else.
Prove you have a compulsion for life,
you choose endurance over death,
you have potential to be a
raft for those without
water-wings,
for my exigency for life
is almost extinguished.
Demonstrate a lust for adventure
that is comparable to my own
so we can rid ourselves
of this boredom, tedium,
this dullness, together.
You are a collaborator,
a fellow conspirator and colleague,
a fellow traveller on this quest,
upfront and honest,
sparing only of the sensitivity of others,
unless for a private laugh —
For laughter is god above all —
the ability to laugh at good and bad,
strong and weak,
not others, but ourselves,
in the dark and in the light,
a reason to go forth,
and conquer
not all,
but love.
The Halfwit Writer 