Unanswered Poems

Don't send me more
 Of your tragic poems
 My dear
 Covered in blood
 Of your monthly flood
 Of tears
 Don't send me more
 Of your angry poems
 My dear
 Carved with the knife
 Of your molten spite
 And fears
 I'm just a peddler
 With a cart
 Bringing discount words
 To hearts
 Broken hearts across the land
 Woman left without her man
 Broken hearts throughout the world
 Anguished boy and crying girl
 Your poetry's too heavy, dear
 For me to read, for me to bear
 Your poetry's too heavy, dear
 For me to get from here to there
 Don't send me more
 Of your bitter poems
 My sweet
 Forged in the fire
 Of your endless ire
 And grief
 Don't send me more
 Of your hopeless poems
 My sweet
 Ripped from the womb
 Of the lonely room
 You keep
 I'm just a peddler
 With a cart
 Bringing discount words
 To hearts
 Broken hearts across the land
 Woman left without her man
 Broken hearts throughout the world
 Anguished boy and crying girl
 Your poetry's too heavy, dear
 For me to read, for me to bear
 Your poetry's too heavy, dear
 For me to get from here to there
 (You see that shadow on the road
 Trudging 'neath its heavy load
 A heart weighed down by sands of time
 And your poems only make him cry
 And he won't add them to the pile
 So he can walk another mile)
 (And he won't add them
 To the pile
 So he can walk
 Another mile)
 Too heavy, dear
 Too heavy, dear
 For me to read
 For me to bear
 (They make him sad
 Make him cry
 Beat him down
 Deep inside)
 Too heavy, dear
 Too heavy, dear
 For me to read
 For me to bear
 They make me sad
 Make me cry
 Feel as though
 I want to die
 (And he won't add them
 To the pile
 So he can walk
 Another mile)
 Too heavy, dear
 Too heavy, dear
 For me to read
 For me to bear
 (A heart weighed down
 By sands of time
 And your poems
 Only make him cry)
 Too heavy, dear
 Too heavy, dear
 For me to read
 For me to bear