Friday, May 31, 2019

Keeping My Distance

You are poison
disguised as confection.
I must expel you
from all the places
I'd allowed you to saturate.
Traces of you linger,
haunting me
with reminders of the joy
you used to engender.
Now, your forced overtures
spark a wince of pain,
and I recoil from your falsity.

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