July 2025 Editor's Choice: "A Nicer Person To Me"

I don't

Pull any punches

And will

Write what I feel

In my

Rhyming tales.

For people and

Relationships

Get stressed

And stale

From time to time

And may

Inevitably fail

Without affection

A touch

A smile or hug.

So is it

Asking too much

For some simple

Human warmth?

Or will

Every mistake

I made

In the past

Remind you to be

Cold blooded

Sending me

To Coventry?

God knows above

How love

Turns to hate

And hate

Turns to love.

So go away

For a break

Take a new road

See fields, rivers,

Lakes and seas

Then maybe

You will return and be

A nicer person to me.

© TARIQ SHABBEER

U.K.