Figuratively

 

This poem’s gonna get in your face.

I swear - it’s gonna start with you.

This poem is potent.

It’s gonna step up behind you

and show you

right where it’s at.

Make you lay down and beg

for more.

It will definitely

have it’s way with you.

Shove you right back in your seat

and you’ll want it

just like that.

You simply can’t do without it;

and you know it.

You’ll make excuses;

be driven, to see it,

more and more. This poem will

make it so very hard

to just say no, and mean it.

Your eyes will be compelled

to follow this poem

down and down,

bit by bit,

to it’s final, trembling line

and just when you think it’s over,

it’ll reach up beneath you

and make you wish,

so very much,

for just a little

bit

more.

 

Ó 1998 Maryann Hazen

 

 


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