No matter what we think or say
Complete enlightenment
Is inconceivable
No matter if it’s what is
Always only here and now
Simply because it is
Incompatible with our mind.
(7/17/26)
I don’t like that sound.
Do stop buzzing around?
You have hovered there all day.
Just leave me alone,
Here on my own.
This is my sunflower. Go away.
You’re quite contrary.
You’re not a nice fairy.
I am hurt by what you say.
I thought we might share;
Lots of room there.
But, if you insist, I’ll fly away
INCOMPATIBLE
I asked her if my wife she’d be
But alas she didn’t fancy me
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I Love you deep then runaway
For the slave child may never lay beside the master
Encase our cadavers within one grave!
So that we may live happily ever after
Thier words pierce sharper than blades.
Branding the letters out on her heart: "NEVER LOVE A SLAVE!"
For the slave child may never love a master
Encase our cadavers in one grave!
That we may live happily ever after
I remember we were
Just out getting brunch
Driving through the city
Being young and dumb
I wanna take you somewhere
Bring you somewhere
That lights up just like
The nights of the 4th of July
I wanna keep things straight
Cause I’m not too sure
If we’d work out together
I just wanna stay as friends
But I wanna go all the way
I wanna see fireworks
Explode between the of us
As we get closer
I’m also scared of losing you
Not sure if we see eye to eye
You’re the best thing to happen to me
And I’m not ready to lose it
Maybe I’ll take the chance
The chance to be with you
I know just who you are to me,
But seems you will never be with me.
I hope I find
The missing piece
I've been blind
And not in ease
Here you are
Out of nowhere
Sets out the bar
Cannot compare
Yet you are an agony
In a nice way
You make me angry
But I want to stay
You make me mad
But I want to kiss you
You make me sad
Every time you go
But you came back
I don't want you
I don't need you
I just want to hold you
So tight around my arms
I want to lay with you
On the grass
And make no harm
You're a liar
I'm a hypocrite
We both are chaos
We shouldn't be together
But stay for a while
We'll leave tomorrow
6 November 2017
They would murderously fight in bed,
Prompting the question 'why did they wed?'
Actively blowing away the guy's money,
And suddenly ceased to call him 'Honey'
Publicly vowing to dissipate his income,
All his efforts at leverage a bunkum
Now, he's striving to the evil way chart,
And ceaselessly trying to break her heart.
You thought the writing of your letter was important
But to me the lack of loving words was your shame
For you my failure to reply was the portent
And I thought the missing sentiment was a game
To the ice and fire,
The incompatible love.
Never were you meant
To be in any sort of intercourse.
Because tragedy and shame
Is what's penned down
By destiny and fate's hand.
Where was your hope?
In water, wind or sun?
Either way I see gloom.
I see fire in icy demise
Huge inferno turning to a glow
I see, ice in fiery thaw,
Melting into hopeless flow...
A preposterous conjugation
Of an unimaginable intercourse
You forged in the name of love.
"Incompatible with life,"
The words he spoke,
And then the heavens fell
The earth stopped
And the universe grew silent
For a long while...
W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2019.
8/6/19
INCOMPATIBLE
Some say we're incompatible,
It seems that most agree.
We don't belong together,
Should be independent and free.
Why do people judge us,
When we in each delight?
Having different tastes just adds
To a mixture that's just right.
We're joined together as a pair,
Like a hand fits in a glove,
And the pleasure we can give,
Spreads to others with our love.
You may begin to wonder why,
We've stayed attached this long,
How did we get so popular
And proved so many wrong?
We'll let you hear our secret,
Then all of you can share,
Peanut butter and chocolate
Are a very compatible pair.
From the book 'Chocolates and Chuckles'
Copyright © Vivien Wade Nov. 15, 2014
It wasn’t my fault it didn’t work out
We were doomed right from the start
We just were not compatible
Which drove us two apart.
I’m not to blame but neither were you
Our outlook together was poor
Our goals were as different as night and day
There’s no way that we could endure.
You have no proof I told you lies
That I had been untrue
At the time I had but one true love
And that my dear was you.
So, I will show no shame at all
Let’s part as friends today
And wish each other all the best
And go our separate ways.
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