Cypher Of Blues

One too many friends spoke to me recently about the woes of unsuccessful dating. This was my first attempt to capture it

 

This spring has brought my heart to slaughter

assaulted by a dating list of M.I.A.’s

figured with this pain my dues have been paid

but it seems time has more hate to harbour

 

yet

I find my wandering mind pondering

time after time

to conversation scripts like Hollywood drama

of sweet promises and laughs that lingered longer

than I felt common connections would

thought that they understood

that I'm willing

to try, to share

along that path

along that road

 

and it’s not the me of old that was too bold

or the me of then who’d cry ‘victim’ again

or the me who’d run when commit would come

 

yet

as I pursued I missed their detour sign

cypher of being left behind

of thinking I've lost my mind

No option, no choice, just left confused

searching myself and finding no clues

as to why I don’t qualify

or what’s the way to relay

that I’m not desperate

just simply lonely

so spent

so tired

 

and now my patience is groggy, annoyed, and foggy

my passion’s been tamed, abused, and then maimed

as if all I can choose is this cypher of blues

Author's Note

To me this one seemed a bit forced since I was trying to write in rhyme but if I worked at it maybe it could be come lyrics. May try to do another poem on the same topic in more of a free verse.

Reviews

[Theta S. T.]

Nice....
It seems that they gave you all the right woes of the dating world
Nothing really works out the way you want it too
Expecially in the dating world!!

I think if you took out the rhyming it would work out the way you wanted it too

~~Theta