On Greed and Love
A tell-tale sign of love
Is wishing that you’d thought of it first-
But being glad that they said it, not you.
So when you told me
That the word ‘avarice’ was lexically greedy-
Crunching on consonants, snacking on syllables-
Suddenly every other word took on a new meaning
And all the letters of the world
Seemed to be telling me just one thing.
A tell-tale sign of love
Is wishing that you’d thought of it first-
But being glad that they said it, not you.
So when you told me
That the word ‘avarice’ was lexically greedy-
Crunching on consonants, snacking on syllables-
Suddenly every other word took on a new meaning
And all the letters of the world
Seemed to be telling me just one thing.