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Your Love Is Corrosive

Your love is corrosive
Caustic
Eating away at my sense of worth
Scathing
Your words
More so your silence
Burning away 
The tender fibers of my heart
And I smile
As I’m being eaten alive...

Vitriolic embraces
Scorching simply because
They are too brief
Too perfunctory

Erosive kisses
Eroding my passion
With their simple pecks mockery
Instead of intercourse of lips and tongue

Acerbic love making
The smell of my burning flesh
Lingering after the brief encounter
Of two bodies devoid of souls

I’m being reduced to nothing
Acrid tears burn down my cheeks
In the destructive light
Of your “love”

Eileen Manassian Ghali

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Paul Callus

Date: 12/13/2020 2:28:00 AM

Ohhh to want to give and share love, and no reciprocation in sight:( I can imagine the feeling of emptiness...unfulfilled desires...frustration. Hope you are keeping well my appassionata :) Big hugs being sent your way. // paul

Richard D Seal

Date: 12/5/2013 2:49:00 PM

You've used some harsh wording in this write my little Desert Orchid, nevertheless it's a wonderful work in expression of such feelings. Take care, Richard

Sarai Virden

Date: 12/1/2013 4:27:00 AM

Descriptive passionate piece Eileen. You are incredibly talented.

Joseph Matose

Date: 11/27/2013 9:55:00 AM

Great poem, Eileen! Last two stanzas are awesome. JM

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:27:00 PM

JM........thanks ever so much for the lovely visit! :)

James Marshall Goff

Date: 11/27/2013 9:20:00 AM

You were wonderful on Drake's show! Eileen! I tried to say hi...but couldn't connect! Cheers, Beirut! Jimbo

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:28:00 PM

Thanks, Jimbo......yes...I was disappointed that I couldn't get to hear poets calling in...JUST MY LUCK! Perhaps.next time??? Thanks for the visit...and the lovely compliment.

Tim Ryerson

Date: 11/27/2013 8:02:00 AM

Well Eileen, it's been a while since I read and commented on your stuff (Sorry!) This is a jolting, sit-up-in-your-chair piece of work my friend, telling the brutal yet beautiful truth... LOVE the alliteration in verse three (Erosive kisses, eroding my passion) Have a wonderful and blessed holiday season dear lady...Love to you - Tim

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:29:00 PM

Yes, I have missed you, TIM! :( Where you been???? That's ok. I forgive ya! ;) You know you are ALWAYS welcome here!!! Hugs at ya from BEIRUT!

Tim Ryerson
Date: 11/27/2013 8:08:00 AM

Hey, I liked Licia's fav line too! Not fair Licia...You did that just to irritate me I am QUITE sure...

Nocturnal Poet

Date: 11/27/2013 7:43:00 AM

HI I'M ANEW MEMBER OF POETRY SOUP REALLY NICE TO READ THIS POEM THE THOUGHT IS JUST WOW LOVE MAHIMA!!!!!!!!!!

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:41:00 PM

Thanks, Mahima.....Welcome to Poetry Soup. You will love it here! Hugs

Ken Carroll

Date: 11/26/2013 11:58:00 AM

Hi Eileen, An explosive and expressive write about reaching your limit of a poisoned relationship.. Ken

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:30:00 PM

Thanks for the visit, Ken. I did enjoy writing this piece. I let my thoughts go riot!

Delysia Hendricks

Date: 11/26/2013 9:03:00 AM

The plastic kind is muuchly worse than no love. Down with lies and hypocrisy. A line only you could master with such finesse, "intercourse of lips and tongue". A heartfelt write I enjoyed, girlfriend. HUGGIES Licia :-)

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:43:00 PM

GIRLFRIEND!!! Thanks for visiting, woman! Miss ya! Glad you liked this piece. You know I value your opinion. Hugs and kisses.....XOXOXOXO

Liam Mcdaid

Date: 11/26/2013 7:28:00 AM

deep beautifully crafted eileen

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/29/2013 2:44:00 PM

:) I'm honored, Liam.

Demetrios Trifiatis

Date: 11/25/2013 11:22:00 AM

Dearest Eileen, love, as you know, is to exalt a person , to elevate to unimaginable heights of dignity and respect, not to impair, to despise , to degrade that person! If it is the second case then a hubris is to call it love!

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/26/2013 5:44:00 AM

Yes, my dear poet. That is why in the last line....I have the world LOVE in quotation marks to show the irony. Thank you so much for your visit. I have missed you here!

Poet Tacito

Date: 11/25/2013 10:35:00 AM

YES!!!! Your verbiage is expanding & conquering the territorial unknowns. Leave your mark...fantastically stinging.

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/26/2013 5:45:00 AM

:) DRAKE...YOU ROCK WITH THESE POSTS!!!! Verbiage...YES! I did think this was out of my usual and IT FELT PRETTY DAMN GOOD!

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 11/25/2013 9:55:00 AM

Not your usual fare but impactful none the less. I am off shortly to enjoy some Vegas Sunshine. We are enjoying our little get away. We are here till Wednesday and then back to work. I am eating way to much *lol*.

Richard Lamoureux
Date: 11/26/2013 8:30:00 AM

Can't promise *lol* you know how hard it is to grow vegetables in the desert *lol*

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/26/2013 5:46:00 AM

Oh Richard...LUCKY LUCKY YOU! When I was in Cali, my cousin offered to take us to Vegas...Should have taken him up on the offer. Don't know when I will get to see that place EVER!!! You go and have fun for me too, ok? Promise? Eat extra for me too....just promise it isn't anything that had a parent.....was was kicking! ;)