Bruises of Desire

Paramour of my nocturnal concupiscence!

You imprisoned me and clayed me, a bonsai.

You taught me to break and bleed.

Once this soul, a wild creeper

craved to creep and creep.

You enslaved it and clipped its tendrils

with lethal doses of lust.

Sprouted dreams dreary and dead.

Days and nights of detachments dejections and delusions.

I taught myself to brood, to sulk and to despair.