A Poisonous Relationship

[ellyssian]

A Poisonous Relationship
April 17, 2005


She’s stalking me,
I know.
Trailing behind me,
clinging.

A touch, and all is lost.
Under my skin,
all hopes lost
as I sink deep within.

Tangled in her sinuous ways,
pinned down,
here, there, and everywhere;
I would run if I could.

Just when I think she’s gone for good
I catch a glimpse.
Behind a whisper she could hide,
but she spreads herself too thin.

And when I hold her tight
she kicks her heels and digs in,
wrapped around me but refusing
to let go.

And I wait long after she has gone
for the signs.
She won’t let me forget
the pain.

“Ivy,” I say to her, “it’s time we say goodbye.”
But I know, under leaf and loam, she lays waiting, spreading, waiting…

Copyright © 2005 Everett Ambrose Warren