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So, to offset my guilt at not making a poetry post during National Poetry Month until yesterday (I recognized it was Poetry Month, I just didn't...do anything about it D: ) I've decided to put up another poem I wrote just under a year ago.  I still like it, though there are some things I might tweak...not sure yet though.

Anyway.  Here's another poem:

Midas

Touch me.

Let me glitter,

Gold for you.

Give me worth,

Your admiration.

Turn me from myself:

Commonplace, dull;

To something far prettier

Treasured, longed for by so many

And worthy of your notice.

Kill me.

Stop my heart,

Gold for you.

I mean nothing

Without your attention,

I am foul, worthless

Not just to myself.

I know that you do not love me

As you love those false trinkets,

For you’ve never bothered enough

To say otherwise.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get the formatting on the blog to work out the way I originally wrote it...:\ But this isn't so far off.