Keep Away, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

You all surround me, taunting me
“Here you go”, then toss it over my head
Out of my sight, I turn to see you gone
“Over here” I turn and see nothing again

Damn it poem, I have caged you
With schoolyard bullies
Who won’t let you out
Tossing you around in my brain

Hide, run and hide, don’t abide
By my desire to express myself
You’ve thrown the stanzas
On a high shelf, out of my reach

I cannot breach this stalemate
I’m the runner caught between
First base and second
The words tossed between the players

Close to tagging me out
The line backer has blocked the pass
Tipped ball, I the receiver
Run to slide under attempting to catch

Trying to build this spoken word
In the middle of a briar patch
The taxi is out of service
These words I can’t dispatch

You hoarder, I don’t care
I’ll pull you out of anywhere
Like the stubborn marlin
Stuck on a reel and line

I will have you, you are mine
So this final try, I throw my hands
Up in the sky, and BAM
I caught you, I wrote you

Now I am doing fine.
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