my feelings –

alien to you as much as – secure is to timid,

shatter like shards of glass against your narcissistic walls…

how awesome,

it must be –

being  you;

how – required!

pompous as an apostrophe –

owning possession,

and the power to unite –

yet completely – unaffected!

and while you dangle effortless,

unencumbered –

I remain tied to the weight of my own culpability.

necessary,

you are –

more than any imagined ownership.

for without you,

meaning is lost;

and I become irrelevant as a useless preposition –

alone  –  without the companion of my most reluctant ,

yet oh so necessary –

object…

sometimes – just tired.

and while the implication points to disengaged, the truth is not found on that particular page.

tonight i give up the fight.

tonight i lay down the weapons of conflict.

tonight i turn out the light – retreat.

tonight –

i am just too tired to engage with demons that presume entitled occupancy.

my sanctuary of surrender is off limits.

there will be no confrontation,

no chaos of unnecessary,

no conflict –

tonight…

and then sometimes, it’s the simplicity of the lyric –

unobtrusive cadence –

silence –

before the phrase…

i tend to look for that same – (in)equality in life.

so many times we over-quantify our justification.

presume preeminent jurisprudence when in fact,

we own less than assumed autonomy over our purpose.

how ostentatious –

contrived –

hypocritically pronounced!

surely, you do not imagine yourself – higher than –

greater – than –

(self-proclaimed -) elitist – do you?

temporal –

with such sinful disregard,

you flaunt your affected – morality…

flagrantly inept,

you deconstruct the foundation of believability –

simply by assuming yourself – the axis!

spoiler alert –

this world does not –

even remotely –

revolve –

around – you!

(you surmise my silence implies ignorance,

yet you speak, and remove all doubt…)