Mr Needle

Just let me inside one more time I’ll make you feel better. You know what I hold Within my belly. Your veins scream out for me With deafening voice, drowning out All you friends who tell you ‘no’. I hurt you the first time, But you forgave me Because it felt so good soon after. Since then you’ve always Come back, groping, grabbing, Filling, stabbing, ecstasy. Some day I’ll kick you, But you already knew that And don’t seem to care. I like that. It’s nice to be seeing the same person Day after day, instead of having To adjust to someone new. So hang on to me For as long as you live, Because you know you can’t leave now. You need me and I need you Or we both die. Written for a poetry class in 1991.