How to win an argument

Want to know how to win an argument?
Just convince the other guy of your view
Oh and be ready to take on facts new
Forget attacking: It won't make a dent

Listen: Don't interrupt the other guy
You need to follow standards much higher
Don't mislead. Scrap that winning desire
You're there to understand. Not to reply

You must invite your foe onto your side
And you must forgive their past transgression
Ditch humiliation and aggression
For in the end you've got nothing to hide

So then: Now that these truths have come to light
I ask you: Do you still want to be right?


11th December 2018

Emi

Take my hand- we will go walk this city 
Discussing the fine art of crafting words 
Constructing rhyming schemes working in thirds 
All melded together in honesty 
 Merging snarky humour with metaphor 
Breaking in structure with a force restless 
Two torrents with many things to express 
A pair of weavers of words by the score 
Viewing the world with a curious eye 
Walking down a route neither one was prepared 
However there’s no reason to be scared 
Leading each other to summits so high 
The enclosing walls; time to move beyond 
To paths forged out of a creative bond 


Completed: 11th November 2018

Revolution

So, you want to start a revolution?
Do you want to stand up and have your say?
Want to give answers but no solution?

You want a change to come without delay?
Does explaining make you feel like a tool?
You want conversations that go one way?

Want to challenge the incompetent’s rule?
Think the masses are under the wrong crown?
Does guilt and social pressure sound useful?

Tired of being greeted with a frown?
You want to back those fighting the good fights?
Want to use any pretense to take down?

Want to declare who receives equal rights?
Want the bad guys take account for their sins?
Got revisionist history in sights?

Want bring down your tyrannical kings?
Drag them straight to the depths of the Nine Hells?
Want to decide who loses and who wins?

Want the timid to come out of their shells?
Tell them their voice matters and they’re a gem?
Sick of being happy for someone else?

You got a cause no one would dare condemn?
You, for said cause, prepared to travel far?
You want someone else to be the problem?

Will you face down every critic bizarre?
You have many comebacks primed and ready?
Want to decide who the outsiders are?

Do you have any plans post-victory?
Why give such a possibility thought?
For what’s a fighter with no enemy?


25th October 2018

The Fine Art of Exclusion (Redux)

The power to exclude: The sweetest thing

An intoxication few can refuse

It divides the lies from which truth to use

Decides who will lose and who’ll be winning

The power to exclude: It writes the rules

Heaven help you if you’re on the wrong side

It welcomes the down-trodden with arms wide 

Promotes inclusion just not with the fools

The power to exclude: Puts me in charge 

Decides who will speak and who to ignore

Saves me from the scum. Make me something more

Makes me drown out anyone, small or large


The power to exclude. You know it’s true

And if you held it you’d do the same too



11th October 2018

The Fine Art of Exclusion

I will tell you how things work in this life

What needs to be said. What we need to do

I’m for inclusiveness when it’s not with you

And I bet this knowledge cuts like a knife

The crowd I lead is the one that’s correct

Heaven help you if you’re on the wrong side

I’ll welcome the down-trodden with arms wide

Disagree with me, if once, and you’re wrecked

I have time for them but you? I ignore

I don't care about what's holding you back

Your weakness is showing so I attack

You just keep on being you. Close the door

This is my truth and this is what I do

And admit it: you would do the same too

8th October 2018

Untitled (II)

See the one face you have seen every day

Run errands because they won’t leave the house

Hear many stories ‘bout their ex, the louse

Have fights that end with them getting their way

Lending money, no return when it’s due

Being powerless when they throw a fit

Do things through being made to feel like shit

Demands to know where you go, what you do

Have friends concerned for you left on the shelves

Be forbid from seeing your family

Be told, yet again, that “You complete me”

Only staying so they don't hurt themselves

Face a truth too ingrained to break this curse

The truth that loneliness is so much worse

8th October 2018

Unhappily Ever After

Stuck in single life. A wretched prison

My latest attempt to run has too blown

But I’m sick of wondering what I’m missing

It’s time to embrace what I’ve always known

So no more will I engage in the chase

No more will I miss out on something grand

No more will I try so hard to save face

No more will I hope for a lucky hand

No more being seen as some kind of threat

No more experiences to be shared

No more need for human touch left unmet

No more declarations that I’m not scared

Thus I embrace the single life: Rejoice

After all, it’s not like I have a choice