Say Anything

I just watched a movie with my roommates, Say Anything with John Cusak (spelling?) I enjoyed it, it was corny, sappy, 80's romance, which is right up my alley (except the 80s thing...) One of my roommates, however, doesn't like cheesy/sappy at all, and was trying not to gag through the whole thing. It was kind of funny. When it was over, I told her she could stop gagging now. She thought it was funny. But a totally true funny. You know?

I don't even know what I want to say here, I just wanted to write something, to update, to "Say Anything...." :) Interesting pun, no?

I am a believer in raw poetry, or minimalistic poetry. This basically means that the poetry I write is only slightly edited. Not a lot of change from the original first draft, most of the time being the first draft. A normal edit for my poetry is changing a line, or a word. Usually this is done as I write it, hardly ever do I edit after the poem after its completely written. Its just the way I write poetry. My stories, I edit big time, no raw there. Edit edit edit! But poetry, raw, original, just words spat onto a page (or computer word document, either one).

My poetry comes usually from times when I am exceptionally emotional--lately because of a guy. (One in particular, but I won't go there.) When I am emotional, it comes out in a few ways. I vent to one of my friends, and say the same thing over and over again, or I sit in my room, blaring my music and I just sit there listening/dancing randomly around my room. Or, third option, I write. Sometimes its my stories, one of my novel ideas (another pun) or sometimes, rarer, (is that a word) it comes out in poetry. Raw, thoughts onto a page, broken into lines, poetry.

So, I'll give you a sampling.

Say Anything
By Shae Mallak

Anything, anything at all
Spit it out--
what do you really want to say
to me?
Do you speak from your heart?
or what is expected from you?
Speak--
true and honest
how you feel
raw emotion
pouring out of your soul
to me.
Does it frighten you?
It frightens me.
Just speak openly
because communication
is key--
the key to success
to relationships
(of all sorts)
and the key
to my heart.
Just be honest with me--
say anything,
anything at all
that is real
that is true
that is honest
Honestly you.
I want to see you
who you really are
so be honest
true
real
speak--