Trees Cried Leaves

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Here's a quick poem I wrote at dinner tonight. I don't like the A A A A A rhyme scheme; It's stupid and sounds wrong. But it has a couple redeeming qualities, I think. Also, I had a whole bottle of water today plus a tiny bit more. Boom, suck on that fucking health.
I might revise this more later. Right now it's mostly me exploring ways to write something as crying things other than tears. I had a couple other quick stand-alone lines like, "my soul cried the dew on the grass," and "the night cried my haunting dreams." But, the first one was an accidental rip-off of Neruda and the second one I made up right now because I can't remember the others. I do remember this poem though. And another; "(so-called)" is still ingrained in my head. Now, whenever my friends ask me for a poem, I can just recite it and they're like snxbahhxsjxjohymygod did you just think of that?? Right now?? And I seem cool for couple of seconds until I admit that I didn't. Today Molly asked me for a poem so she could practice translating English to Japanese and I slapped it out real quick in an email and she was like... astounded and jealous momentarily.
Someone asked me the other day if when I write poems they just come naturally to me like an epiphany, and that's definitely not the case. I wish it was. It's mostly just me writing and tweaking and then tweaking again a hundred times until I've turned it into something most likely worse than the original, slap a title on it, and call it a day.
Okay now I really need to sleep. I have classes and an entire presentation to conceive and prepare and do and practice tomorrow I haven't started yet due Tuesday :). It's Sunday :)).  (Technically it's Monday because it's past midnight but fuck you.)

The poem:
My heart cried tears of blood from cuts you left in me
Now my fingers cry these words you'll never see
Do you confirm or betray the existence of an almighty He?
Your insidious touch— one of his seven— greed
Just put me out of my misery

God I'm so fucking poetic and deep I know how to rhyme 😩👅🤧👌

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