Easyspeak

so ... demanding she told me to stop to stop 'thinking like a poet' ... but what the hell did that mean?!? she added unto, thusly - 'stop creating Tolkein worlds' (verbatim) that hit home ... any other fool with a pen would take it as compliment but I knew her too well ... I knew exactly what she meant and kindness was not the dish being served 'you are not so tragic as you think', she informed me 'not so heartsick as your dragon kingdoms' ... 'or their celibate heroes' ... (my vision and ire, flooding red) but I am a poet, you see not by choice or motive or even pitiful circumstance and 'twas so easy for her to say as my heart thrummed for naught but her and her heart thrummed ... for him.