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Sunday, March 20, 2022

Wallflower, a poem by Abhinav Aradhi

 

Wallflower

A tale unfurls,

As a doe-eyed boy

Bumps into another,

In a crowded hallway.

 

A sensation overtakes him,

And he falls into hopeless,

Desperate, cloying, poignant love,

And it eats at him like maggots to a dirty, rancid, flea-bitten corpse.

 

His eyes grow glassy,

Stained glass murals of adoration,

Like windows in a temple of Venus,

Where he has become a fervent priest.

 

He becomes a nightcrawler.
The stalker in the eves,

He watches the object of his affection

From pining shadows in the corner of a classroom.

 

Hell hath no fury greater than his,

Upon seeing the Queen Bee flirt with his man,

So he attempts to shoo her away,

From a distance, with an invisible flyswatter.

 

And he hopes so purely

That he shall fall out of young love,

Which is so powerful a force

That it overthrows even gravity.

 

Alas, he is entrenched,
Trapped in a mire of candy hearts,

And chocolate boxes laced with cyanide,

For that sweet taste of bitter almonds.

 

He sobs into a pillow,

And drowns the poor thing in sorrow,

Then assaults the pathetic thing with his wrath,

As he is getting ever so impatient.

 

With a cleaver in hand,

He threatens a mirrored life,

As he falls into madness,

Onset by Cupid’s piercing strike.

 

A lovestruck fool of a boy he is,

Passionate to a fault,

Sensitive on a whim.
What a terrible affair.

 

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