Parasitic Love POETRY

When I looked at your face,

I once illumined like a candle.

Though now a torrent of cold thoughtlessness diminishes the flame you enkindled.

An aimless abyss-

Every moment with you.

Every second the light burnt

Felt like it was fed by a unconsumed sulphur,

The wax wept its life away

drop by drop to give its flame,

But, it must die to the world.

To one morning be born again-

And enter the Kingdom of heaven.

So that the light can be able to radiate past the brightness it could ever reach-

melting in your cruel and steadfast hold.

A beautiful red rose,

Freshly plucked from its neck in your hand

Natures perfection, damned.

Callously tearing its delicate and young petals

from its mother pistil.

You snuff out natures innocent handiwork

Empty, what once was, the garden of love.

With every bud you selfishly snapped from its stem.

You dim a love that once was alive.

It is at our Lords command, I decree:

Let you lay banished -

Fallen.

By Tissa Sabeti

Disclaimer:

poem is inspired by 'paradise lost' by J Milton & Bahá'í writings