Don’t become infatuated Don’t fall in love Especially not with poets Because they only ever exist in their words They will write you love poems, and lengthy paragraphs With words said in ways you have never heard before You will fall in love, with love poems, the way they say their vowels, and the look in their eyes when they read to you They will lull you to sleep with sticky sweet words And they will speak of the colour yellow, in a new light A new meaning will come to its definition And it will slowly become your favorite colour You will wear yellow dresses, and put daisies in every room You will see the speckles of yellow in their brown eyes But you will find them at three in the morning sitting in the bath tub, bathing in the words of metaphors You will find them having an affair with Stanzas and Verses at the same time, sleeping with sonnets You will see that poetry was always their mistress At night they will no longer share blankets with you, but they will wrap themselves in ballads and couplets You will only be able to express this new distance with eulogies You will start seeing yellow everywhere In the beds of your nails, and them hems of your skirts Till you start seeing it so often that you will want to puke up every word they have ever said to you You will realize that talk is cheap and Rhymes are easy You will realize that poets only ever exist in their words