You Frustrate me

By: RDV


I watch myself vanish behind a thick glass of inferiority
While you worry yourself sick with oil prices,
Rat-tat-tatting in rapid excellence about what the economy misses
Right in front of you.
Shame, you hiss.
Yeah, I reply with a nod, with spurious concern.
I dry myself up to collapse on the sheets
As your vocabulary haunts the ghost of my shut-eye.
I never can explicate the tirelessness of your machine,
And the thickness of my defense.
In my nightmare you make one of my dreams come true;
When I awake, you debunk the rest of my wishes.
Breed some originality in yourself in my name, will you?
Don’t withhold the grace of your folly
For that’s what I loved you for.
Flaunt to me your generosity.
And with one bitter pill at a time,
Present me with that kind of white surrender,
The one that’ll let you go of me.