Overwhelming
It stifles me -
the heavy breathing down my neck.
I feel the force of your love
overwhelming in its intensity
and it stifles me.
You think you know me
but you love a memory, and you
mould and cajole until it materialises
into tangible reality,
but it stifles me.
You said I would fly
yet you clip my wings and contain me.
You speak my words and you restrain me.
You rock me this way and that,
and it unsettles me.
You stifle me with good intention.
You say you love me
but forgot to mention
that I would drown in this
adoration, struggling for air
as it stifles me.
This deluge has overcome me
and I am falling from my pedestal,
falling from grace, I must escape,
because it stifles me.
Copyright © Helen J Radford | Year Posted 2008
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