Architectural Nuisance (2011) Poem by David Joel Rodriguez

Oh love, you fiend
You were everywhere
and hiding everywhere
Thank you for...
giving me the chance,
the chance to...
Love again!

Oh love, you fiend
You are everywhere
And hiding everywhere
Thank you for...
Giving me the chance,
the chance to...
Hate again!

Should've let me be when I was pain free
Never was I interested in what you saw
No matter how neutral you appear to be
Glancing my frail pith, only to withdraw

Why, after the pain do you consciously visit only to say,
'Every soul has a chance or a choice to love someone.
Once you mess it up, it will never be the same again.'

Oh love, you fiend
Now you are nowhere
and hiding somewhere
Damn you for...
Giving me the choice,
The choice to...
Love again!

Oh love, you fiend
Never were you anywhere
Still hiding somewhere
Damn you for...
Giving me the choice,
The choice to...
Hate again!

Why, after the pain do you consciously visit only to say,
'So, you took a chance to love again didn't you?
Now you have a choice to fix what you've broken.'

You should have left me all alone
You never should have visited me
You felt my soul when I was prone
You never should have tried to fix me

Oh love...
You are how you are
because of me...
because of me,
I am how I am
Because of you,
...you fiend

'Maybe I deliberately broke YOU to see what was inside you'