Virtue Or Vice

• Maya Lawton, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2019

Our love was like a sky
A sky with flames and stars
Raging comets and the beautiful moon
Take me back to sweet hell and let me ride,
Ride on the wings of the firey hate filled love we once had
We may have been war torn but the passion was there.
But now you show no proof of passion
I beg of you this:
If our love is a bull grasp it by the horns, wave the red flag
Just please, ignite the fury and let it flood into your heart
Because I long for the fury, the aggression, the pain.
They say everybody wants a flame, they don’t want to get burnt
but I will take the burn, the scalding hot pain.
Anything to break the empty, the numb, the mundane.
Give me passionate love or passionate hate
All I need is the intense feeling, virtue or vice