Only A Lake (poem)

Good Looking Fat Guy

I should never bargain heart and soul

Learned, limp-minded Mercator was a foolish realist

Ordinal maneuvering was attempted into inglorious ingots, a

Valiant, violent struggle, yet it rejects the steel

Ever always, this will be beautiful blood

Yearning howls emanating from its whimsical wishes

Our Mercator at last saw futility in

Undertaking this task, his love now haphazard



Let love play the drums

Let it caress the org-

Fuck clumsy metaphors



I love you

That's all I can spill out

Damn you, spill



River

River

Ocean

Ocean



River River River River

River River River River

River River River River

River River River River River



Ever flowing, ever knowing

Must be coming

Must be going



Indolence rips away the eye

Impatience must be shoved on by

Impudence of must be shunned on high



High High High High

Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye



Bye to doubt

Bye to shame

Bye to hurt

Bye to lame



Likely peace

Likely calm

Passion enters

Soulful balm



Balm for the soul

Bombs away on soulless coldness

Coldness in icy iterations

of

I don't know

and

I can't decide

or

I don't see how

or

I don't know why



Why, Why, you, you

I, I, I

I LOVE YOU



OCEAN

OCEAN

OCEAN



Certainly

Now only a lake

Only may be only, but only is all I need.



~Chris Lavorgna

Lilnoobs

Put away the Thesaurus for now. I have no idea what's going on in the first stanza. I get the stanza is trying to build some eloquent way to write about love which is "shattered" with a curse word, but I don't think it's really working well as is.

Am I to assume that river, lake, and ocean are not clumsy metaphors for love?

Like cut everything. Except

"damn you, spill"

and expand from there.