Love Me Like a Worm

Like a worm I let you into my heart
A heart so fresh, so ripe, unblemished
Knowing all of of this from the start
You fed on me for your love so famished
Tunneling down into my deepest core
all around and in and back out again
crisscrossing even through all you bore
paths of destruction for only when
To realise after too late for defense
and never should have invited you in
my heart was fooled with playful pretense
and how must I suffer the consequence?
Now I hang withering on the tree of life
Dark scabs cover me all over my skin
and anywhere you peel me back with a knife
So many dark traces where you've been
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Posted: Jun 2011
About this poem:
Nobody likes to bite into a rotten apple. A lesson about unfruitful love.

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Comments (9)

nabii
I can feel the hurt. Touching write.
gnj4u
Hi, Yankee4you,
Tunneling down into my deepest core...So many dark traces where you've been. Your poem paints a trail of destruction left by such a consuming love and withering on the tree encapsulates so much pain.
Yankee4you
It was a long time ago now...but the pain is always still fresh when I let it surface. I am in a much better place these days...thankfully. I think forgiveness makes us whole again.
boyshchrm6
Well that was really a painful love
but it would seem good ridance. Pity
you let it go so far. Trust is a two
way sword.cool angel comfort thumbs up
Yankee4you
You're so right.....thw sword of trust is like the sword of truth and seperates the good from the bad.....but why does the bad always pray on the good?
niah9
I felt your pain Yankee4you....portrayed well..niahteddybear
agoodguy2have
yank, as you say, forgiveness makes us whole again. take that worm, put it on the hook, and fish for another. ;-)
trurorob
cleverly done!, sad but so true to reality at times
rob
DaBomb72
Yankee...they say : "If you can't beat them, join them, then beat them !"wink
Head up...step up...and win, my friend ! Good writing as always !handshake
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