I Want It That Way.

Second in a series of poems based on the most-overdone karaoke songs.

I Want It That Way

I invented fire. 

The one messiah. 

Believe what I say.

I own a desert.

I make a diamond a day.

I invented sex, and also those

yummy walnut prawns at Chinese banquets.

I am pretty lit, by the way.

But tell me why

I can't decide

that you would just walk in

from outside.

I'm friends with a dinosaur

who shits concept cars.

I am absolute truth.

I invented mistakes. Also, cake. 

I made you in my image,

messed up your hair though.

I'm that guy who stays up for four days

and sleeps for three. I'm Pinocchio,

I think in code, I'll love you from

the start of time to

the tallest point of Tokyo.

But tell me why

you can't just decide

to ache for some guy.

I can see electrons,

spit a billion sick syllables,

stop and start a heart,

but I can't make up your mind

and am left wanting, that way.