Venus Flytrap

You seduced and teased my yearning, with your succulent lure A floral fragrance sumptuous and bizarrely pure, You impaled and intoxicated my mind, with your corporeal charms My impassioned heart, raced to your ominously parted arms! You clasped me like an octopus, locked me in your iron embrace Then I saw the restrained venom, glistening on your shifting face! Irrevocably entrapped! Sandwiched between your gluttonous claws Acquainted to your enormous hunger, peering from your slack jaws! Couldn’t you heed the dilapidated struggle of my impotent gasp? You unfeelingly asphyxiated me with your murderous grasp! I was blinded by the appeal of your suicidal, sensual strokes Now on your magnetic cuddle my body whole, shudders and chokes! No longer are you suave, aromatic and flirtatiously tender Virulently tamed, I rue my battered woeful surrender, Like an insatiable leech you suckle me, siphon my naked despair! A monster transformed, lacking traces of compassion or care My labored breaths grow scrawny and senile, While you gleefully devour me, with a ragged, complacent smile! I writhe, you chew and grind and gnaw! Like a vulture, ravenously consuming my remains raw! I wane in vain, haplessly I tolerate Aware, another victim will share my fate! © Maverick Nyambu