Tuesday, August 1, 2017

hemopheliac

Poem intro text: [it was only a tiny dagger so small really / a kiss in comparison to the hundreds which had cut him and which he had mocked]  Romans 12:14,17    [originally written 7.21.2017]





Hemopheliac


it was only
a tiny dagger
so small
really

a kiss
in comparison
to the hundreds
which had cut him
and which
he had mocked

and
he had lent it to her
not because he loved her
which he did

but
he couldn't hide anything
from her grasp
her teeth
on every toy


yet beneath his scars
he bled
and had been bleeding
and continued bleeding
and would still yet
continue bleeding


and when she cut him
yet again

she could not see
that now


he allowed himself
to feel


— iva m