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Best Fiend Forever

Your 'friend'? Your 'bestie' ...

You KNOW her face like your own,
Know the many masks she wears -
The lovely guises she dresses in to seduce,
And the lies she whispers, sweet.

You know the world she has left in ruin,
Yet you invite her as you would a wish ...
Come in, you say ... welcome!
Let me tend your horrors,

Make me and mine your home ...
I want you to curse my comforts -
To kiss me, deep, and make it burn,
Mind my manias and melt my marrow ...

Course my veins like lifeblood ...
I want you to raze the ramparts of my castle,
Bring the walls down around me,
Rattle my lungs with death's consumption,

And dance in my skin like a scarecrow.
Oh, and if you please ...
If you pretty, pretty please ...
I will, quite sincerely ...

THANK you for it.

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John Hamilton Date: 8/20/2019 9:09:00 PM A little sadistic no? Some can't enough of torturous relationships, me...I run the other way, once is definitely enough for this cat. Enjoyed as always G, stands for great! Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/22/2019 2:17:00 AM I like your interpretation better, John, way more romantic, (and less demeaning) ... I've come to terms with it all and am no longer ashamed, (though certainly not proud of it). It is a type of insanity for sure - to knowingly put deadly amounts of poison into your body for years on end, (especially being a pharmacist), and lose everything in the process - but I also believe everything's for a positive purpose, and I'm still here for some reason ... maybe just to share it in poetry, and reach someone going through the same, I dunno. I have certainly grown through the process ... quite painfully. Blessings, Brother. :o) John Hamilton Date: 8/21/2019 9:12:00 AM I get it now with your explanation, I guess the picture threw me off, no matter what this is a great write. I suppose one could invite drugs into their life knowing it will lead them to addiction, but the lure is too strong. Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/21/2019 5:03:00 AM Thank you very much, John, as always you are much too kind, but so appreciated! This is actually about substance abuse, though it could easily be a relationship or many other things in life that we are sometimes subservient to, (politics, money, food, even religion) ... as is with most imagery, it is whatever you interpret it as, and THAT'S the really cool thing about creativity and art! Blessings, my friend! :o)