Rose With Thorns
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I surround you,
beanstalk without beans
Invade you,
rose with thorns,
reach my painful stalks
deep inside your
comfort zone.
Creep up on you
in evening hours,
on misty corners,
In the drizzle.
Permeate your
private life as if
personal property.
Ambush your
rooted feet:
seated between your
chantharels, boletes
and beet root:
I eat your stamina away
In tangled sheets
in sweaty nights
of dreams
and nightmares,
I envelop you
in thoughts of fever
without pills to kill.
Fly around you, a
mosquito buzz,
a tiny horror,
as a vampire waits
to be let in;
as a robin begs, in throaty
singing
And when you sleep
I'll be right there
deep inside you
a pest that never
leaves you
A rodent that eats
your resolve
Until you silently wish,
by lack of tears
and voice...
Until you wish
that you would stop
to be there
Then I will
have won.
***
February 26, 2017
© Darren White
Copyright © Darren White | Year Posted 2017
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