Hot and Cold

Hot and Cold

 

Your mind is changing constantly

You don’t know what or who you want

You don’t know what you like

 

How am I supposed to know?

 

You change opinions

You change ideas

 

My temper is starting to flare

 

I’m getting impatient

Make up

Your

Damn

Mind

 

I’m going to blow up in your face

And the heated ashes will stick

And mark your perfect cheeks

 

It’s boiling and boiling

It’s starting to overflow

 

Are you done?

Oh, you’re just getting started

 

How long would it take for you to notice

Me walk away

When you’re so caught up in yourself

Trying to piece yourself together

 

You have no history

No one’s broken you

Let alone in two

What are you trying to put together?

 

So you haven’t figured yourself out yet

 

That’s not why I’m here

I’m not here with a magnifying glass

Oh this is your piece

Nope, this is mine

 

I’m more broken and shattered

Yet I’m more put together

And decisive

 

Get to it

Because I’m done playing tug a war

 

I don’t need to be pulled along with your ideas

Today it’s this

Tomorrow it’s that

After tomorrow it’s something else

 

No, I don’t roll like that

 

Come to a decision

Or I’ll be forced to make it for you

 

And you wouldn’t want that

Now

Would you? 

Author's Note

Ever come across someone who just keep changing their mind over and over again?

Whenever it happens, I think about Katy Perry's Hot n Cold song. Hence the title for the poem.

Enjoy

Reviews

[Hippy]

It spoke to me in it's own way. I find myself indecisive and need to make a conscious decision to just say "f**k you austin" and just do. I think I'm going to work on that and just keep doing, less thinking. Interject myself in all kinds of things, life is a bit more interesting that way. Thanks for resurfacing this unresolved conflict. As for a poem I thought it had bite and is assertive which is cool and I can easily empathize with the situation. It is a quality stab at indecisive people, i dig that. one Line did leave me confused though

"You have no history
No one’s broken you
Let alone in two
What are you trying to put together?"

like the middle two. I kinda get it but i feel it was presented awkwardly. Elaborate?
Anyway i am glad Katy Perry isn't singing this.

[Destinyxi]

You have no history > the person this is written for has no past relationships
No one’s broken you > no one's broken their heart
Let alone in two > no one's even broken it in two
What are you trying to put together? > questioning what the person is trying to fix about themself/what they are trying to put back together. Don't fix what isn't broken.

Make sense?

[Hippy]

Yeah it makes sense. that is how i understood it, maybe it was just me but i feel
"no one's broken you,
Let alone in two"
just didn't seem to portray what i understood from the line how i desired. but it is poetry you will get that sometimes.

[Hippy]

But hey maybe he wants you to make the decision for him. confront him and make him make a decision or talk it out. maybe it is a lot more difficult. I don't know.

[Steve]

I love that song! Its very catchy and real.

This write is super motivated as well and shows someone who wants a decision made..and made now. :0)

[Subrat]

Marvellous piece of work...great 1

[Michael Kevin Spencer]

Your womanly rage has it's own special signature and it brings the high-tide of amusement to my brain, I can just picture you chiding the boys you date in your feminine critical brain!

You seem to value passion over romance and you translate that into the most interesting stories of love gossip, it's like reading sex in the city in verse!

[Jibey]

People can be so frustrating! The flow of these words reflects the bumpy ride of such a relationship

[Stammers]

I like it

or, maybe I don't... I can't decide

[KAOlmsted]

Yes. In my experience, people who wobble in their ideals are usually trying to please all of the people all of the time. In the case of relationships, if the person wobbles, it usually means they're just holding out to see if something "better" comes along. Drop this person with a quickness, and do it on your terms. Perfect cheeks are less important than your happiness ;-) Great write.

[Junert]

Is it that terrible? I'm like that. Change my mind everyday. Feel there's no need to stick to one option when there are unlimited choices.

[Krithika Raghavan]

I love that Katy perry song, and it's a good song you've penned... Love the last two stanzas...

[Hester Vane]

Oh yes, I have definatley had this experience in life! And I was like you, being more assertive than the idiot in question! You have conveyed the frustration brilliantly!

[B-poet]

That's quite an ultimatum for a woman who's starving for attention. A.K.A. TLC. Very interesting take on what happens when you don't pay enough attention to a woman whose really attracted you while you're in a relationship. Great job conveying the frustrative emotions of that within your poem. :)

[Destinyxi]

This was written for a man :P men are just as attention starved as women.

[B-poet]

I agree. Just depends on the person and the circumstances. Still a great though. :)