Poem

A Love that set me Free

You taste of an ocean of sugar,
garnished by a whipped cloud from heaven,
a nectar that intoxicates my memories
into dancing to the tune
I used to hear when you laid your head upon my chest.

I indulged upon those lips,
that kiss that felt like falling.
Your warmth thawed my eyes
allowing me to see love again
and in that love I slept,
till my heart became as pruney
as out fingers in the tub

But you are as wild as the bush
that adorns itself with thorns,
preparing for the primal feed
that exhausts you of your honey.
I could only stay awhile before
my hunger would die beneath your pricks.

I stayed so long that your branches grew around me,
forming a cage of endless sweetness and death.
Each attempt to fly away
fell prey to my addiction.
Your nectar was of the gods,
and I knew I would never find it again.

So this cage became my nest,
and as much as I hated it,
I loved it!
I gnawed upon your bark as the panic set in,
and from eyes that could only see my pain,
I hurt you more than you hurt me.

One more taste of this sugar that drove me insane
would give me strength enough to say goodbye.
But since I had damaged you so,
broken through your bark to the thickest of the sap,
you would no longer grant me a sip.
I had become your enemy,
a leech upon your artery of beauty,
and so I do not blame you for cutting off the flow.

I don't know if I have it in me to fly away,
on to a different nest that doesn't captivate me so.
For your taste has become a memory,
and as it ages, my desire becomes stronger
than the whiskey can mellow.

One more taste and I'll take to the wind,
and all you'll hear is the echo of a farewell
as it lingers in the autumn breeze,
a goodbye to a love that almost killed me,
a goodbye to a love that set me free.