A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Friday, June 21, 2024

"This One Is Yours"

Do what you will, it's a gift given freely 
to decorate your sleeve, or leave on your floor
You can't put conditions on gifts given freely
Except for this: really, I don't need it no more

Apart from that do what you will, what it tickles
Your fancy is free to; it's at your dispose. 
To give to Goodwill, or your charity preference
It don't make no difference, you know

It's not my heart now this one is yours
Hold it! Keep it! 
This one is yours, now 
it's not my heart, girl, this one is yours
Break it! Leave it. 

That's what it's for, anyhow

It's not as if you or if I were the wrong one
It's cooperation 
That's brought us so far 
So far from so close, we can't see the fork taken
That led us away from 
Where we gave our hearts

When you took yours back, well you did it so deftly.
So true and completely: your touch like a pro
But I don't need mine! You can keep it for practice

It's really quite useless, you know

It's not my heart, girl this one is yours 
Take it! Keep it. This one is yours. 
Now, it's not my heart, now this one is yours: 
Break it! Leave it? That's what it's for,

Anyhow.

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Further lyrical ad lib to out, repeat refrain but only partially, accenting with emphasis by letting words and phrases drop entirely to silence.

/Bow out

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