I Wrote You A Song, Baby

Never sing to a poet. She'll eat all your music and try to give birth to something better. Comes out crappy.

you played me a song

you said you wrote

with no one in mind

A Love Song

you were willing to put my name on-

I wonder now (in retrospect)

how many other girls

much simpler than I

you played it to (I suspect)

to sway them to your bedside.

In turn I've dedicated my pen

to your face

and so many of my poems

I wrote with you in mind-

Because

"I'm no Picasso

but you inspire me..."

 

An empty dedication

at the forefront of a mangy book

I may choose to burn someday

a symbolic destruction

of a love that burned us both-

and I will use these ashes

to blacken my face

set out into this wasteland

in camouflage

a militant broken heart

a crewcut femme fatale

I will sneak into your room

and destroy your precious guitar

so that every morning

you will wake

to bits of wood and wire,

as I wake every morning

to the broken dreams

of you and me.

 

This is not a masterwork of poetry

this is a stupid break up sonnet

This is not a masterpiece

This is a niave good-bye song

because

"I'm no Vangogh but,

you inspire me...."

Author's Note

The words in " " are originally by Luiz Pinheiro.

Reviews

[Kayla]

This is good!! I like how you included artists because peotry is art as well as painting is!! I like the story line, how he writes for hundreds of women but u write for only him and it is a break-up poem!! I really like this because I like how it's told!! Great job!!

[Adeline]

this is really good, I can feel your anger and resentment in it all at once. I loved it. its really clever how you quoted the song in your actual piece, I especially liked the lines on destroying his guitar so he'd wake to something awful to, I just understood the poem better after I read those lines. It was awesome, keep writing!