Bane

• Viola Jokudu, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2015

My love tragedy starts here, but I warn thee
My love will fool you for she..is not a she
But her love was real or so I believed
Our bliss timeless …but I was deceived
Her smell so sweet, it made heart after heart swell
Yet so toxic, putting lung after lung through hell
They warned me, our love was destined to die,
Our eternity condemned to fade by
They saw here true smoky aura, dark and grey
They saw her true peril and took her away
They seized my air!
At least that’s how I felt
I was ice, knowing of my fate to melt
My solution, addiction, my sweet bane
My love my one,
My dear packet of cocaine