SHUT UP MR. SHAKESPEARE!

"What all we men write when we think we are in love. Here's something I wrote when I last entertained such a notion. I think it's a sonnet!!"

The night was positively dripping with romance.
There she was, silently destroying my soul like the Huns razed the Romans!
The Queen among women, sleeping beauty bundled in a blanket.
"Nothing’s worth disturbing her dream, not even a kiss" - my mind does a rocket.

Why do I feel the simultaneous twirling of a cotton bud
In each of my ears whenever she talks to me. "Is it rhyme?"
And what’s that frenzy drumming - only I hear the thud!
Could it be my charmed heart, working overtime!

My own words defy me, coming out before I get my tongue around
And end up as errr… brrr…. mmm… and ffff… - burst and well-ground!
I know it’s more than desire, more than love and lust - it’s greed
To get all of her and my own soul freed.

Shut up Mr. Shakespeare, "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain"???
I tell you, it’s the tempest on a heart that’s just been burnt in an oven!

THE OPEN CAGE

Ever felt like a lab mouse?
Running ceaselessly…
Sometimes knowing
Where you are going
And sometimes not knowing,
But always unaware
That you are going nowhere?
Dreaming your dreams of
Conquering the world
Like Pinky and the Brain
On Cartoon Network,
But never really managing
To rule the world
Or even leave your cage.
The cage that’s your home now
The only place where you
Feel safe and wanted
The cage that’s your mind
The cage that refuses to unlock
The cage that holds the key
The cage that is open!