Default Poems - Poems about Default

From default yes to designed no

O to live life in relentless outreach
And still stay put, stagnant, nowhere to reach,
To struggle hard, getting not so in hand,
To feign busy as if a butterfly,
Or a productive bee nevertheless,
O to say thoughtless yes in place of no, 
To make hurried choices on onward ho,
And still fail to find meaningful flurry
Amidst meaninglessness of life

Default

Reset my conscience
But you always stay the same
My default is you

My Default

I am so scared to fall for another again
Completely terrified
I don't want to be hurt like the last time
Something I heard that always stuck with me, "You can't control how another hurts you, but you can control how you choose to respond to it."
People who thought they knew love, wounded me
Love didn't hurt me
It nourished

Fault Lines In Default

If you choose default,
who's to blame, at fault,
when fault lines fail?
Is it He/She or Me?

Default

Politicians ready to bet
Will play with the national debt
They think they control
How the dice will roll
But may cause a gambler’s regret


Authors note: Last time this happened, the Federal Government shut down and stopped making payments to its employees. The air traffic controllers who were working without pay started a slow down and President Trump decided

My Muse In Default

Far from the din of madding crowd,
Away from the bustle of city life
I withdrew into a solitary spot,
To turn my thoughts into dazzling verse.
Shelley and Shakespeare came in view,
Emily and Eliot fell in line,
Their verses ringing loud and clear,
Their energy fanning fire within

I dreamt of putting proper words,
To clothe my thoughts in striking lines,
Longed to

Default Positions

Nothing hurts more
than the blunted arrow
the grazing punch,
the half-slur.
Insinuation
from a sibilant slander 
whispered to a sleeping cat
haunts many ears.

She was a woman dammed to be
a love for me. My curse
was to desire her.
We were a cage-fight for passions
yet in the end
no one was hailed a winner,
we limped away
damaged by near misses.

Nothing stings
as much as a

Fault and Default

Lots of things simply aren’t my fault
         But then, some are…clearly by default.

--from one of my poems

Truth In Default

All the young Jews,
all the young Christians,
all the young Muslims,
debt to confuse

Abraham crying,
prophesy fading,
hellish debentures
—Heaven to lose

(The New Room: July, 2021)

By Default

If nothing can be done
—do nothing

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)

Winner By Default

My Dad always used to say

Better to win honestly and
with integrity in tact

Than by default 

Because your competition was
having a bad or off day

A hollow victory is still a victory
to some, it still gets your name
engraved on the trophy

Champion elect for the year

Default

What was,
became you

What will be,
becomes you

What could be,
belies you

What is
—befalls

(Dreamsleep: September, 2020)

Dream Job Murderer By Default

A teacher will at some ask of you ?

What do you want to be when you
grow up ?

And as i owned a train set my dream
job always was to be a train driver

And so one day when i grew up
the opportunity came my way
and i grabbed it with both hands

And happy was i very much

Error By Default

No one 
Never seen God 
Ever sees his Men God 

No one can hide from God 
Very wide the eyes of God 

No one God to witness 
No Men is given this fitness 

God is in complete at him no fault 
Men are incomplete error made by default

Drugs: A Lifestyle Default

Right here, right now, every day of my life, 
I return to nothing at all,
Back to the place of four walls and a chair, 
Back to a lifestyle default,

Where I can hear the voice whisper to me, 
Close my eyes and see the voice dance,
Where I know the one true love of my life, 
Is

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