Toxic

I followed his summer hues into a thick forest that left my wide eyes blind,

I never knew beauty like these evergreen trees,

I saw the sun dance on their dark leaves

teaching their full veins one more thing: how to glow

 But when under its luscious shade, night in day,

 I can no longer see the silent dance, the peeping play,

No more back and forth, one step - two, it is only forth

 My budding bones begin to wither

Snap, Crack – will I have the strength to walk back to the summer

Tropical girls only know single nights in Alaska.

 

Melted by his words and frozen by his touch

He was a wealthy beggar,

And I - a curious cat among lions, who unlike me,

knew when to starve and when to eat

Followed his grey rainbow to the woods,

Girls who fall in love never come back.

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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