POET

I'm a poet and I tell you this,

Never fall in love with our kind.

We're an abstract bunch with perplexities,

You won't have us fully defined.

I'm a poet and I tell you this,

We've got this jigsaw puzzle of a mind.

You'll never know the whole of us,

We'll keep most of us confined.

We may seem like profound romantics,

But our true love lays in one.

Everything else is merely an excuse,

For other than poetry we love none.

I'm a poet and I tell you this,

Never fall in love with our kind.

It will always only end one way,

We'll drive sanity out of your mind.

We're romantics but not lovers see,

We take advantage of the obtuse.

You'll think we care, in truth we don't,

You're just another muse.

I'm a poet and I tell you this,

If you believed it was love and stayed,

I'm sorry to be breaking this down to you,

But darling, you just got played.

Samin Sabah Islam is on a quest to find the perfect diet while simultaneously drooling over pizza. Throw her some tips at [email protected]