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Writer's pictureElaine Gao

Toxicity

Here is another one one my proudest poems. I don't ask that you necessarily like it; I just hope that it can jog your emotions in one way or another. Having said that, here it goes:


You aver to me your fidelity: “I’d never cheat!”

I don’t doubt that; you love me as your one and only

As your life force, I can't leave, nor peel you off 

Only to tend and to nourish

Till the point where you suck me empty.


You quarrelsome wife whom I refuse to live with

You won’t catch me on the roof, for I will get away.

Your love I might sense and even warm towards

But I am no filter; I don’t tolerate lukewarm

You are either in or out, 100% or nothing at all

It is not in my nature to absorb half

And keep out the other half of ugly residue


Yet all along it is I in the folly.

Rebuking the splatters on your face

While I drown in my own mawkish tears.

Me, the spoiled daughter of a noble lord and lady,

I demand that dolls obey, or I rip out their stuffings.

They ought to please the will of their hostess.


Your love is pure in flecks, muddied in others.;

Mine is the rose in the Beast’s garden

Whose thorns prick if you dare to step out of the line

Which is better, which is worse? 

Which is utterly toxic?


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