I was once told
“Free verse is lazy man’s poetry.”
He’s wrong.
Lazy men don’t write.
Lazy men barely feel.
They are too consumed
With doing nothing that,
They.
Don’t.
Care.
They will not express themselves.
They will not tell you “I love you”
They will do absolutely nothing.
He’s a liar!
Anyone who will take time,
To carefully construct lines
That are just the right length–
To get the point across…
IS NOT LAZY.
They take time to insert–
Punctuation.
Spaces…
And even just to write.
True that to some,
It takes less effort to write
In free verse,
But that does not make us lazy!
We are still writing.
We are still expressing.
We are still doing more…
Than that lazy man.
More than the person,
Who doesn’t write at all.
More than him–
Who calls me lazy.
I’d like to see you try.
T. Marina
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