intrusive vagabond

if only you were
just an illusion,
pretentious pain,

intrusive vagrant
who leaves braille-etched
taunts on my skin.

opportunistic hobo,
who hitch-hikes
and implodes every nuclei
and cytoplasm
up and down the tracks
of my being.

and here I lay,
in wait, trapped with you
inside me, a limp-dick lover
who insatiably, pounds
my malleable bones
with a sledge hammer.

charlatan

you will not fool
me this time
yes, I will

embrace you
rock you

in the arms of patience,

massage the bamboo
pricking, sticking,
up and down my legs;

I'll be brave enough to manipulate

the naked nerves
until each blistering
tendril calms,

no, I won't
be the bear caught
in a steel trap
chewing
off limbs, or the wolf
tangled in a wire snare
whining

they're the ones
who self-amputate
making way for escape.

instead

I will caress you

coddle you

cosset you

complacently,
hate you.