Deadly Degree

• Alliyah Fareo, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2012

The tasteless word, poison on the tip of my tongue,
I’ve almost got her, I’ve almost stung.
What a vulnerable little lady who will never see it coming
Ill get her at hello, we’ll have a relationship unbecoming
What a vulnerable little lady, doesn’t she see?
Shes bound to get burnt to an intolerable degree.
Will she burn and weaken or burn and learn?
Will she burn and let her emotions churn?

I’ll get to know her and make her feel invincible
I’ll tell her what she’d like to hear and be convincible
But did this vulnerable little lady know,
That this was all a pretty show
That she meant nothing to me,
That she’d get burnt to a deadly degree.

She’s just a show case like the last few,
My heart is armoured and im hard to woo.
I’ve been burnt by the tasteless word and now it’s time,
I’ll burn them all after their triumphant climb.
I gave up on that poison to save myself from pain,
It’s time to watch the poison seep through them vain by vain.

Hey there vulnerable little lady,
Do you hear the sound of my snicker, the size of my grin?
Youre just another piece of rubbish that will end up in the bin.
Stay there vulnerable little lady,
Don’t make a move towards the door to leave,
Youll stay with me till I really believe,
That you mean nothing to me,
And that you’ve been burnt to a deadly degree.

Ive burnt you and im satisfied
The moment just intensified.
Im a heart broken heart breaker,
I look around and find a taker.
Vulnerable little lady should know
She’ll feel the poison just like so.
Vulnerable little lady should see,
That we were never meant to be.