Xylophone

Your sad face silently entices,     
standing alone in the darkness.  
  
You beg for my touch like a lover  
but I hit you instead with a hammer.   

Yet my cruelty can’t stop your thrill  
as you scream with a happy shrill.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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