It's weird,
how people feel the need
to spew out
big,
lustrous,
complicated words

just to give life
to their poetry.

This is not a contest to see
who can cram in the most
lavishly sounding
words,

in the least amount of
hardly
grammatically correct
stanzas,  

to sound half as intelligent
as we try to portray ourselves to be.

Funny
how we try so hard
to look so different,
then we really seem.

When we could just write
from our hearts,
instead of our thesaurus.