The Most Consistent, Inconsistent Person
You can send me up to the stratosphere and then send me crashing back down to Earth
You can be the nicest person in the world and then all of a sudden you will turn
Some say that you are only nice when you want to be
So I really shouldn't allow you to control my happiness or my peace
There are so many people that are more consistent than you
But they don't bring me to such extraordinary highs quite like you do
But then you can be cold and distant while they are consistently the same
Then I ask myself, why do I allow you to affect me in such a way?
You are The Most Consisitent, Inconsistent Person that I have ever known
I don't know why you have to be so hot and cold
You are The Most Consistent, Inconsistent Person that I have ever known
If I allow you to control my happiness and my peace, then it's my soul that you own
I really shouldn't put all of my eggs into your basket because you will just disappoint me
I really should seek out people who treat me with kindness more consistently
It can be tough on me when you come across mean and unkind
It can be hard to care about someone who can just turn on a dime
Maybe you are the way you are because you have been hurt so many times before
Maybe your heart is guarded because you fear that there is more pain in store
But this can be hard on people like me who really care about you
And who have benefited from all of the wonderful things that you do
You are The Most Consistent, Inconsistent Person that I have ever known
I don't know why you always have to be so hot and cold
You are The Most Consistent, Inconsistent Person that I have ever known
If I allow you to control my happiness and my peace then it's my soul that you own
From Dying On The Inside
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I am a writer who writes poetry & plays. I have also written a short film & I created an animated series on You Tube. Included on Power Poetry are seventy poems from my five poetry collections, Rhymes With A Reason, Too Much Unwanted Noise, Broken and Burned Bridges, Dying On The Inside and Fool’s Gold and Fool’s Paradise
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Deeply personal relationship conflict; autobiographical reflection on romantic inconsistency
Multiple ideas per section: control, inconsistency, pain cycles, self-awareness, repeated chorus
Frustrated, conflicted, hurt; moments of empathy but overwhelmingly negative emotional landscape
Driven by emotional intensity and repetition; pacing accelerates but lacks explosive dynamism
Approximately 31-60 lines; substantial meditative piece with structural repetition
Metaphors (stratosphere/crashing, hot and cold, eggs in basket); mostly declarative with ornament
Pure lyric internal voice; direct address of 'you' but entirely introspective reflection
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