The Body asks gratification - when -
A pall - envelops soul -
A prayer asking to start again -
That praises cherubim in thrall -

A sleep - no one wants -
A memory of nightmare - suffocate -
Screaming - incessant - haunts -
The girl he willed - to hate -

I picked - an arsenal -
To deliver - blow -
Till friendly - intervention -
Banishes - weary woe -

One later day - I hear -
It call out once again -
Stokes more than little tear -
But I fight it with my pen -

In all truth - I am star -
Not a consumable item -
Think in fathoms - imagine far -
A bloom atop a stem -

Hearts desires - precious -
Should be from hex protect -
By love precocious -
To her I'm genuflect -