Frienemy:To Know My Foe
You came to me
As an enemy
Feared, Dark, Revered
Steering me toward uncertainty
Avoiding, annoying, destroying
Trust in men
Pricking me to hate
The desire within
Just when I determined
To make my escape
You clung to my words
And wadded up my hate
You threw, withdrew, renewed
The tender love breaking open
Mounted your white steed
And took to loping
~through lavender lily fields~
I cast aside
All restraint
Mounted my paint
Galloping through open gates
We rode upon
Unexplored land
Discovering hearts
Devoted to understand
It rained, stained, made it plain
Love has flowered here
Then, the sun arose
Bringing shadow to fear
Vagrant, thief
Out, get out....humiliated
I gathered my soul about me
And ran into the night
Caring not if death took me
...away...no hope, no love...no fight
I cried out in colossal grief
Love, you are my enemy
I will not look for you again
You only discovered how to leave
Me, lost in the heart of intimacy
Where I can find the arrows of men
Copyright © Trudy Schrader | Year Posted 2014
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