Structure Or Mess

Free verse flow floats thoughts free, 
it’s a diary a ramble or rant with me,
the need to express without the discipline 
or correction not listening 
it the route to relaxation via a messy string 
an eruption not stream

Causing intimate personal revelations
Pause, paint a structural level station,
syllables and sentence length in repetition 
Differences not better worse but placement

I like both to be honest 
that I promise
structure rhyme repeats the same beats 
to a placement seat beat drum bing bang bong 
where as freestyle fingers the piano random ding dung dong

Similar sounds not of a cycle or routine 
but that’s not exiting or rousing 
It’s the 8 o’clock alarm 
the 9 o’clock start 
5 o’clock finish 
walk home in the dark 
Whilst shift work mixes up the morning night times no fixings, 

I think I freestyle when I need to rhyme 
and structure when I want to rhyme 
But I don’t judge either like up em self people 
who need to read 3 4 3 4 
I can 8 1 5 9 5 4 
Cus if it ain’t a pattern they are just telling you honest truth, 
if it’s structured they carved it not gave raw to you
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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