My Love

My Love
It's gaping maw insatiable,
Crawls trembling toward lurid
Sunlight.

It is a bottom feeder;
An aphorism for suppressed passion.

That amorphous wretch:
Refusal to cease equating
Suffering and nonsense,
To love and the masquerade-

I shiver at the thought.



"My Love"
Jenna-Nichole Conrad
Wordsmith
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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