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Grammatically Speaking

love was a lonely Syllable 
Embedded hypothetically  in the 
syntax of the
Story of
You and 
Me

We quoted ,
I love you
And you , sic [loved me] 
But perhaps
this was 
Your hyperbole

Parenthesis
you
kept
[Me] in, 
Frenetically 
in case 
our verbs
became nouns
No verisimilitude 
Imbedded logically

the allusion
Came alive 
Described
So 
speciously 
All too clear 
Once I chose
To study 
The 
history

No, 
The Plot discovered,
This was
My own soliloquy 
Dear Apostrophe ,
you and I 
We are not 
Like simile 

Truth be told
I only resemble 
Footnotes
In the ledger 
Of your 
Poetry

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Darren White

Date: 3/2/2017 7:56:00 AM

I love this, and it made me chuckle. I love how you grammatically speak throughout your poem... And even though your Apostrophe and you are not like simile, I do not think you are nothing but a footnote in a ledger. Great poetry, this, thank you.