with due respect to <br />poetry <br />let me set aside <br />you, <br />to the comfort of <br />your rhyme, <br />let me try prose this <br />time <br />so i can make my point <br />clear, <br />dearly beloved, <br />let me confess to you <br />my enduring <br />pains, my inviolate <br />resolve <br />to go away far from <br />all that is <br />sweet and adorable, <br />let me bleed this time <br />in the most <br />accurate description <br />of a narrative <br />dearly beloved, <br />now you must <br />understand that pain <br />is not <br />a metaphor, <br />it is literal, <br />it is real.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-literal-pain/
