Short Overweening Poems

Twist off the cap
Lay it in your lap
I'm your favourite beverage
Take a sip of your leverage
I give catering a double meaning
Leave the flavours of my heart overweening

Soft or alcoholic
Was your love for me hyperbolic
Do I leave you dreary in the streets
Every step your awareness depletes
Or do you look forward to tasting me again
No longer a recipient of your disdain...

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The crazed obsession 
    to rule the lives of others
rends the ruler's humanity 
    into tatters,
feeds, fills and bloats 
    his overweening vanity,
deludes the ego 
    with invincibility.

But stripped of his mask, 
    the tyrant shall fall apart
for pomp and vainglory hide 
    a sham, hollow heart
of a cursed, cowering canine 
    that creeps to crawl
through labyrinthine caves 
    of what's left of his soul!...

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