"You Hurt Me"

By Sarah Colleen (s.c.)

you are a viper-

my very pores perspire 

with your poison, 

your venom. 

your treachery feels like 

acid within my flesh, 

you devil.

o' wicked beast-

you are original sin.

words spat so foul,

they fly-

defying gravity like 

a treasonous mind which

has lepth from the edge. 

the leaves shall 

begrudgingly photosynthesize, 

knowing they aid 

in the fill of your lung, 

and the rhythm in 

your chest cavity. 

Food nourishes;

water quenches;

shelter protects you,

but only in spite of you.

you are the evidence

which proves even

the cosmos make mistakes

every now and again. 

By Sarah Colleen (s.c.)