Best Poems Written by Erika Benson

Why Can't I?

You can’t defeat me!
You can’t stop my crimes!
I’ll someday get it right, you see,
I’ll even do it speaking rhymes.

I can rob a bank.
I can end it all.
Your hero powers have been shrank -
Or is it shrunk? I can’t recall.

That’s besides the point.
I’ll still win this day.
I’m so sorry to disappoint,
This will be your demise, I say!

Why destroy, you ask?
I don’t really know.
I haven’t had a tragic past.
I guess it’s fun to be your foe.

It is a pleasure
To rob this here vault.
I do not need all that treasure,
But I do need the extra…salt!

Yes, you are a salty,
That’s what makes this fun!
I love this strife and your faulty
Attempts to stop what I have done.

But you can’t win me!
You can’t stop my crimes!
This time I got it right, you see,
And I did this while speaking rhymes!

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