Poetry doesn't have to pretty
Pretty doesn't have to be pink
Pink doesn't have to be pale
Pale doesn't have to be slight
Slight doesn't have to be weak
Weak doesn't have to be lame
Lame doesn't have to be soft
Soft doesn't have to be squishy
Squishy doesn't have to be blobby
Blobby doesn't have to be mushy
Mushy doesn't have to be sentimental
Sentimental doesn't require a poem sometimes it just requires a look a gaze, one hand on the shoulder of the other, silence.