Failed Tutelage Of Love

Failed Tutelage of Love

I have tried poetry

I have tried prose

I have explained myself with

And also without clothes

I have tried expository

Extemporaneous speeches

I have tried lonely silent

Walks on beaches

You are still beyond my reach

Not because I am not enough

But because you’d

rather still preach

Preaching some of what

You do not practice

So I might as well teach

under water weaving baskets

You say you want someone

Who is ride or die

But you don’t get Bonnie

If you can’t be Clyde

Maybe if you lived your life

By the golden rule

Confucius wouldn’t keep

Holding you back in school

With me you lack humility

You lack introspection

A loving suggestion to you

Seems like an insurrection

Go back into the wild

I set you free

Hoping you find better for you

than I could be

And if you get bored

Please don’t come back

I deserve a whole meal

Not just a snack

I am tired of the endless

future faking

My time is mine now

My heart is done breaking

I’ll probably remember you

fondly at times

And when I do I’ll commit

My memories to rhyme

I am done with hearing

Your careless words

Go fly free now honey

Go be free as a bird

Find someone who possesses

All the qualities I lack

Try to hold on to her

And don’t look back

We only seem to offend

each other’s sensibilities

Maybe love isn’t a lesson

But something to give and receive

I am tired of trying

Yoda says do or do not

I am done striving for something

I never should have sought

Whatever you think I lack

I know there’s divinity in me

It’s in you too

That I do believe

I love you enough

To let you go

bark up another tree

And reap what you sow