The Every Day Cliche

Some say we should steer clear of cliche in poetry.
That it's overdone
Belittles the craft
but

Cliches exist typically because the reality of the situation
hurts just to much to put into words.

Ever feel like you're talking to a brick wall.
Ever feel like you've watched that wall be built over a twenty year excuse for a relationship
where the only real challenge was who could lay their bricks fast enough?
Something many of us have lived,
Something many of us can relate to,
Why deny the obvious by demanding you need a dictionary to understand my hurt?

Ever feel like someone's putting words in your mouth.
Through the art of selective memory, that same brick wall can recall
every blunder, every folly, every drunken brawl and all the awful things you've said,
only to some how twist them, turn them, warp them into verbal atrocities of the worst kind.
And you know without a doubt, you are not capable of such things
or are you?

So we seek to be original,
building word towers of funk and fusion
sometimes missing the point
that what hurts one
typically hurts all
and making it easy to know
you are not alone
is the art of simplicity
and the every day cliche.