Disarming - A Metaphor Odd on a Cephalopod

Posted for a variety of prompts: Heads or Tails (“anything starting with the letter ‘O’”), Hump Day Humor (“marriage”), In Other Words (quotation, listed below), Meme Express (“rock-and-roll”), Moody Mondays (“cheaters” or “cheating”), Poetry Train, Three Word Wednesday (“indifferent,” “pour” and “reason”), Totally Optional Prompts (“tempo”).

Metaphors have a way
of holding the most truth in the least space.
-- Orson Scott Card

Disarming -
A Metaphor Odd on a Cephalopod

Only an octopus, reason failing –
Outstretched arms are flinging, flailing,
Over-reaching in outright railing,
Obviously, trouble’s trailing.

Oddly, unaware of cheating,
On-point, yet indifferent, fleeting.
Overpowered toxic treating
On a marriage due defeating.

Oscillating, rock-and-rolling,
On the edge, yet still out trolling,
Ostentatiously extolling
Operating for controlling.

Out too deep, yet plunging, sinking,
Octad tentacles are inking,
Offhandedly, blindly blinking –
Only an octopus, sadly stinking.

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