Tough

Make haste upon the wind of your questions
Purge that glimmer of trust
Flattery, will get you nowhere fast
Once I confirm, you are not
One of us

Take a  safari on the icing of your own cake
Then cut me a slice or two
You can get overly sentimental, if you like
While I have your cake
And eat it too

Shut off the valve to your bleeding heart
No pity is needed here
I ride bareback on all my trials
Been roughing it
For years

Go ahead and apply your salve to all those wounds
You have been rubbing all that salt in
I wear a shield of aiming intention

That I call my tough
Thick skin

Author's Note

Just having a little fun with the flip side of my personality......

Reviews

[erikaguest]

these words come across in my mind with a certain force or almost flippancy to them. This works so well with the pace of the poem, and keeps the reader engaged from the first line to the last. I love the line "I wear a shield of aiming intention" great poetry!

[Arthur Henn]

Smiling at this - I Love this - This is wonderful


Take a safari on the icing of your own cake
Then cut me a slice or two
You can get overly sentimental, if you like
While I have your cake
And eat it too


I love it - I'll never look at another slice of cake the same way

[Peter Joseph Swanson]

Marvelous!

[unknown]

WOW this wast just WOW, love it!!!! Go Neva, I like this flip side.

[Kelsie Eileen Stark]

Beautiful fury in this.. very strong!

[Rediscovery]

I have been told many times a tough person. But anyway I loved how you have a fierceness to this poem, I love it.

[brenda]

amazing i would love to read that poem to so many guys out there the one that you described in it! i love it!:)

[Allen Smuckler]

You've done a great job integrating common phrases with pure emotions...your cadence, rhythm and style along with great phrasing makes your poem ebb and flow like a river running through it...Another excellent write.
Allen

[Solidad]

"Purge that glimmer of trust
Flattery, will get you nowhere fast
Once I confirm, you are not
One of us"

All I have to say to this is "AMEN". You spin your words beautifully and they're coated in a lethal warning. J'adore :)

[raindroplove]

i like this side of you

[Joel M Frye]

Wow...Samurai Neva!! You have kept the edgy side well sheathed all this time. Come visit the darkness more often...so long as it doesn't cost you too much. I like it when you cut to the chase like this. Well done.