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Love Injected, Snorted, and Smoked

Mike Fraley

 

It courses through veins.

Stuttering-sta-stammering,

the heart skips a beat,

murmuring: I CRAVE-

I CRAVE.

The Wave

ebbs and flows

to the crescendo

of ruinous rumination.

Save, please save!

When you left I withdrew.

Delirious appetite–

no desire for food.

Shaking, trembling-

for you, only you.

I need a fix–

a dose of your soul.

To inhale

your saccharine essence–

and end this dull ache.

Is there another

as dependant on you?

I’m begging:

PLEASE–PLEASE–PLEASE–

please tell-me-who?

Chemical reaction

consumes rational thought.

This drug can’t be love–

yet I hear myself SCREAM:

PLEASE GOD, I WANT.