From feigned interest
and a faint encouragement
stems a failed career.
It’s not about what you say
or how you say it—
words are powerful
they pierce, they shatter
yet words can seal,
try to heal—
chasms or cracks
solace in words
we often find
It’s not what you say
or how you say it
it’s the who.
Proxies promise proximity
but ravage relationships.

Like group of bobbleheads
came men with vanilla sticks
wooing for her fair hand—
yet with eyes for none but one
she picked the outstanding,
preferring chocolate ice-cream