Sweet Little Words

-Sweet Little Words-
by
Keaton Foster



Sweet little Words
Poetic duplicities
Spoken just once
Regurgitated often
Form and function
Always changing the ways
In which what we say
What is to be written out
One man’s lion
In another man’s lamb
One man’s heart
Is another man’s darkness
We can all agree
That in such words
We can either find
Or lose what we need
Absurdities rule
Universal truths
Bleed on through
Each one spelled out
Clarity for understandings sake
You there
Me here
Both quite queer
We should’ve known
Because we are as one
Under every sun
We are the same
Victims of this game
Tortured beings
Believing that WE
Can make a difference
Shouldn’t we understand
But certainly we don’t
Our minds, weak
Our one power
To willingly believe
Is more than just words
Strong is the heart
Of those who dare refuse
And those who find
A honest way to accept
Nonsensical nonsense
Parenthetical pretext
Always stepping in
High holy horseshit
I’d clean your boots
With my tongue
If I didn’t find
Such a thing
So unquestionably disgusting
Then again
Sweet little words
Please give more
Not something said
But rather lived
Desperate is the need
Wicked is every dream
A naked page never seen
Upon punishment of death
I will of course be doing this
What will you be doing
That is the only question
Many find worth asking
I of course know others
Rhetorical resurgence
I could of course care
But like most I figure
What’s the damn point
I’m just a crazy mutha-fucker
Doing something
Least crazy of all
Now to you and I
That should make sense…


Sweet Little Words
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013