Sweet Malaise

Adrenaline bull-whipped by frenetic glucose, 
Dominates the freeway veins; 
Straight to the head, blazing a trail, 
Smashing and crashing into the brains. 
And each cell sings a siren migraine, 
And the heart pounds a beat, 
And the vapour rises, a stupor ensuing, 
Faint and confused in malaise so sweet. 
Love, ah love, as love might be, 
Preying upon the crippling knees, 
Infected and burning and feverish, 
Love, ah love, a sweet disease. 
No antibodies to counteract the spread, 
Of hysteria and graveyard crying; 
If this is love as love might be 
Why does it feel so like dying?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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