This Poem’s Going to be Bad

close up photo of wheat

I’m scared of these words

That their fruit’s the worst

Pushing and plowing

Wishing, endowing

Granting them power

Tart, puckered, and sour

I hold a mirror

To my nose, clearer

To see the fogging

Post mental flogging

Where I was going

I don’t know, knowing

Hatred, reluctance

Grow in abundance

Daring to compare

My talents to theirs

I rolly polly

In my shell, polling

Friends and family

Smile amiccably

But love/hate feedback

To grow, I need that

Manure on my dreams

Steaming, self-esteem

It sucks balls that all

Despite callings calls

I’m culling poems

Pull punches, owe them

Nothing, but feeling

Shy, harvest healing

Only show best fruit

Digging at my roots

But folly or flop

I state, I won’t stop

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