Poetry Monday


All the Pretty Words


All the pretty words
have already been said
a thousand thousand times
by a thousand thousand minds
all the verse and
all the prose
all the songs and
all the odes
have been written
have been sung
have been said

All the thoughts that I could think
all the things that I could feel
are expressed by someone somewhere else
more skillfully
gracefully
vividly
what more is there to add?

I saw an ocean in your eyes.
Darkness lifted in your arms.
and all the days are grey

since you left me.






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