xLx's blog: "Indifference"

Like yesterday's bread

Best turned into toast

Taken with sweet, creamy coffee

And stirred with a silver spoon

Is a thought

Best left unspoken

Until tomorrow

Then taken with a grain of salt

And seasoned with time's passage

Ambivalence cannot be dropped

Like Salome's seven veils

Instead it must be grabbed

Then shaken to wakefulness

By the scruff of the neck

So too dislike

Like drops of water

Must fly off the hem

Of a quickly snapped towel

Cry your tears of remorse

Bitter with regret

And dried in the heat of sorrow

Lamenting hasty hurt

Well deserved

Earned in those moments

Of foolish insults

Hurled viciously against

Those deemed unworthy

Dance the fool's dance

Your bell hat jingling

Nonsense as your rhymes

Spill off your lips

Thickened with drink

or slowed

Because your mouth is full of words

Better left unspoken

And you've learned the painful lesson