The Test is Best

You do not need to write to him or call

Until you do important, bigger stuff.

You know YOUR stuff that’s large and not that small

Stuff like the stuff for loving, small enough

Because it’s only stuff for love and not

Important like a driving test and for

Your thesis work.  You treat love like some snot

In handkerchiefs, and one who gives you more,

More, MORE and so love isn’t worth the time

To read love’s messages and answer them.

You treat love’s heart as if it were a crime,

Or worse—a blob of coughed up yellow phlegm.

  Discard it and ignore love for your TEST.

    That’s what your hardened heart decides is best.

© Phillip Whidden