Promises of the swiftly broken variety,

Remote emotions upon being delivered news—we all knew what would happen anyway.

Osmosis is the unconscious assimilation of knowledge.

Scandals aren't quite as glamorous in real life as they are in Hollywood—

Evict this realization from my mind.

...The silliest of fights,

so irrelevant,

so farcical,

that I cannot recall its words.

But again,

that's farcical.

What matters is that I allowed something so consequential 

To undo us.

po·et·ry

(noun)

Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

prose

(noun)

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Or, that's how it's seen by the rest of the world,

isn't it?

We poets, we writers,

We know the difference.

po·et·ry

(noun)

Love. Loss. Joy. Despair. Life. Death. 

Not meant to be contained. Not meant to be categorized. 

Hope. Fear. Smiles. Tears. 

Thoughts spilled upon pages. Emotion let loose from its cage.

Night. Day.

Poetry.

prose

(noun)

A story, scrawled upon a bathroom stall in minutes or spanning novels written in decades. It's a plan and a draft and corrections and improvements, making beautiful creations. It's to  be described only as one thing: prose.