LET’S LEAVE THE ‘POEMS’ WITHOUT METAPHORS br br Let’s leave the ‘poems’ without metaphors br Bare and stark and original br Quiet and sleeping and still br The soothing poems the calming poems br The poems that even in the middle of the night br Let us sleep. br Let’s leave the poems without metaphors br And go back to the simple words br And let them say all they can by themselves br Until they become metaphors too.