Damn! Malaria Again!

Parade Attention!

The Commander-in-Chief

Hollers in my head

And my eyes water

Faster, Faster!

The head ant scurries ahead

With millions in line

A stampede in my innards

No time to rest!

The navy officer points out

Aboard the ship on the

Sea of sweat on my back

My body is winter now

Then summer next

In my mouth, the worst drought

Savanna, my throat

Soon will come heartless needles

Soon they'll draw blood

Minutes of waiting

Then...

Damn! It's malaria again!

Sorry But...I/You cannot have you/me

I give you up

And laughter

Convulses the whole

Of me

A single tear escapes

From where I hid

My sorrow

And I chastise her

For her betrayal

A single Tear 

Tells the secret

Of my heart

As it struggles

On one foot

In need

Of some balance

I let you go

Along

With the colorful 

Butterflies

That rented my stomach

For a season

I cannot have you near

With pompous pain 

Attached

I cannot

You cannot barge in here

And upset my mind

So I turn to leave

With

My heart in place

My lips upturned

A lone tear forgotten

And some sweet

Bitter-sweet love

Forfeited.

Anathema

Tainted rose petals

Indelible stain of pain

Pulsing on a bed of golden thorns

Anathema

Dangling from the orifice

Of a new dawn

Signs of sorrow etched

Into sparkling diamonds

Sweat laced with tears and fears

Trickle down bronze monuments

As cobwebs sneak up silver walls

Anathema

Soaks up the clouds

Blackening blue skies

Listen…

The birds are mute

Feel…

The breeze freeze in flight

Watch…

Love-trains grind to a disheartening halt

Hear…

Stale discordant cords sighing

Smell…

The stench of the end of time

As it gallops here

Anathema

Lands

On our roof