Average Creation: A Poem by Franki

So, while I was writing my blog post "Average Creativity", Franki decided to take make a new attempt at poetry. I think the result is pretty good, though I may be biased both by my relationship to her and my experience of the subject matter (spoiler, it's about doing our dishes). I'll leave it at that though and let you judge for yourself.

Just one more thing, if you were inspired to create something after reading my post I'd love to hear about it. Okay done, now read the poem.
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The Basin of Despair (also, the Sonnet of the Sink).
by: Franki Batten

The porcelain stage where my drama set
Is ordained with precious and paltry stone.
In the apron I soak in the near debt
Due to me as I sweat upon my throne.

The curtain is drawn as I don my crown

And the floodlights wash the foul aftermath
Of a stomach feasting on greed. I drown
In self pity accompanied by wrath.

Yet there is a scene, though hidden by blacks,
That tells of a king and his daughter dear.

His sweat paid her debt in his crowning act.

Now she is learning her character here.

I am being washed as the water flows

from springs on dry land that rise ever slow.