#infected
tectonic pulling apart
mirrored in opposing forces
of Mankind-
the unleashing of violence
on peaceable souls,
Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 7:03 AM UTC
fragile creatures wielding nukes
mind games from dawn to dusk
and as if that was not enough
posting vitriol through the night.
Jan 13
Jan 13, 2026 at 9:59 AM UTC
You always ask me
what I'm thinking of
and I must admit
if you knew my
true thoughts
you will never see
me the same again.
Constantly I am
thinking about
how I could
possibly feel
beautiful at night
when I eat anything
during the day.
I can't tell you this
because you might
worry for me.
You would say
I am beautiful always.
While this helps
it feels as though
you are putting
a band-aid on
a cavernous wound.
One that was small
many years ago,
but recently was infected,
left untreated and
ignored because of
how ugly it is to me.
I am embarrassed
that I love you more
then I love myself.
So I won't reveal
what I'm truly thinking
to you ever.
Instead I smile,
blush even,
and say I cannot
stop thinking of you.
Oct 22, 2020
Oct 22, 2020 at 10:23 AM UTC
You’ve infected that part of me
that cries when I’m alone
Now my tears are iron chains
that block me from the sun
I feel none
Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020 at 9:48 AM UTC
You infected me with your praise
A thought provoked and I was yours
Immediately I was weak to your ways
Highly susceptible to your allures
Your virus spread through me like a fire
I was burning with a yearning for more
Your power left me with a hot desire
Churning deep within my core
But like any disease, you hurt me inside
My resistance corroded, my body gave way
I had no defense, internally crucified
No antibodies to keep you at bay
Over time I came to see the ugly truth
You had taken over and you were strong
My love was like candy, and you had a sweet tooth
Your presence was an affliction all along
So I turned up the heat, and starved you of attention
I stopped being your treat, ignored your condescension
Enraged by my defiance, and wounded by my suspicion
You demanded my compliance, and used all your ammunition
But the jig was up, it was too late
You'd revealed your hand
I would no longer wait
I figured out what you had planned
And then I was free
From this illness of you
I could be me
And we were through
Though your pestilence left behind many scars
I am now and forever immune to your charms
And should you try to deceive me again
You'll find this treasure far more secure
I may have been an easy target then
But now I am armed with the cure
My experience led me to the light
A future without ambiguity, and it's so bright
You were a sickness, an ailment, a disease
You were a cold..
And now I'm antifreeze
Jun 25, 2020
Jun 25, 2020 at 10:49 PM UTC
Infectious!
by Hafiz aka Hafez
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I became infected with happiness tonight
as I wandered idly, singing in the starlight.
Now I'm wonderfully contagious—
so kiss me!
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Apr 7, 2020
Apr 7, 2020 at 6:05 AM UTC
Infectious!
by Hafiz aka Hafez
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I became infected with happiness tonight
as I wandered idly, singing in the starlight.
Now I'm wonderfully contagious—
so kiss me!
Keywords/Tags: Hafiz, Hafez, infected, infectious, happiness, contagious, kiss, me, singing, starlight, moonlight, joy, delirious, wander, wandered, wandering, mystic, mystical, love, passion, desire
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020 at 2:49 AM UTC
It must've been that odd mushroom:
Its pungent spewed spores have made me
A fungal all-fours beast of gloom.
It couldn't have been my own brain:
So toxic, rotten, and seeping
Out meanness, spreading all the same.
Infected, that's why I'm absolved
From sinful guilty reflections,
It was them, not me, that mushroom.
Dec 5, 2019
Dec 5, 2019 at 7:58 PM UTC
its not the ghost of you,
its more like your zombie. because you eat at my flesh and leave me infected.
And its only in my imagination, so no one else can see it, i just wanted to make that distinction.
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 10:25 PM UTC
looked in my mirror and saw you in the reflection
battered and ****** and deeply infected
by the demons who sought to poison you each night
and the venom i'd spit whenever we'd fight
i know you see me as a your ***** secret
but i’m not some drug that you can keep hidden
and i won't stand here, alone and awaiting
a love that is pure because i am not patient
but since you left, it only ever rains
and i stand outside drenched in shame
cause you used to kiss me extra hard on these days
you used to kiss me extra hard on these days
Oct 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018 at 6:04 PM UTC
My blocks they come and go
as all can see, and know
rhyme and words awry
all to do, is cry
It happens happenstance
without a warning or a glance
fumbling and frazzled be
my mind a frayed refugee
I'll plod along the morass
eventually it will pass
a click and fit repose
gliding as it goes
Never ever quit
they'll one day slide and fit
lines and prose with ease
you've caught poetry
disease
Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 2:24 PM UTC
I see these demons with my eyes,
Hear the demons in my mind
And I'm left wondering if true comfort
Could ever leave the skies
The only angels I ever knew,
Existed in my world
Fated to dance with a devils hand,
Tumble, twist, spin and twirl
There is one that's rescued me,
From my path she set me free
And it would be a crime to commit
The acceptance of defeat
The chains of her love,
Fit around me like a hug
When she hasn't seen me in a while,
I'm the crow and she's the dove
Two opposites who seem the same
Species at least with neither tamed
Unless we're in each others arms
Such memories are pictures framed
Her love is strong where I am not,
I'm beaten down, blind and lost
The only light that guides me fair
Hell or heaven, fire or frost
It hurts to know that I'm infected
Malicious mind, I keep rejected
While virus-like it spreads in me
She's safe right here, she's now protected
Heart may stumble, words may fumble
The world could crash and burn and crumble
But as long as my love lives by my failing heart
For her, I'd forever tumble
Feb 21, 2018
Feb 21, 2018 at 3:47 AM UTC
I am caught
By a net of promising words
Lured in by your luminous character
Convinced by your hollow smile
Your affection like venom
Numbing my senses of right and wrong
Unexpected actions
Turned my world upside down
You've done well...
I've been infected...
Now let me cure these feelings
Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 11:38 AM UTC
I woke up sick.
And I feel awful.
But not for the reason you think.
I can assure you that I am fine, I just need some time to lucid dream and wish my worries away. But that might never happen. And honestly, that's okay with me.
I'm wearing the same infected clothes, and wrapping up in the same infected blanket hoping to get better.
I've gotten the rest of my family sick, so good for me.
Because my family is made up of some of the strongest people I know. We never get sick.
And yet, here we are. Bound to our beds and eating soup like it's the elixir of life.
But we will get better. Physically...
As for everything else... we can leave that until tomorrow.
But I'm still in these infected, sick clothes. But I'm too tired to do anything about it. So I'll sleep.
It's the best thing I can do right now.
Don't you think?
Mar 25, 2017
Mar 25, 2017 at 1:21 AM UTC
Welcome to the execution of my mind
Let's open it up and see what we find
Hand me a light it's so very dark inside
The agony seems to be amplified
In here it's so very far from bliss
The demons are starting to hiss
Watch out the blackness is starting to seep out
The sorrow is starting to pour and spout
We must hurry now or we will become infected
Buy what has been inflicted
Killing this poisonous mind we must
To save all of us
Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 8:21 AM UTC
what I want is to know
you've been infected
by my blushing cheeks
whenever you call up my phone,
by the heat of my body
whenever you hold my hand,
and by my bubbly feelings
whenever you're around me
"so I've heard love is contagious," she said
"I know, that is why I love you too," he smiled
Apr 17, 2016
Apr 17, 2016 at 2:46 PM UTC
Cooking up styles
Master Recipes,
For no one to see.
The people are at the shore
I'm stuck at sea,
Barely floating
Almost choking
Mind infected,
Hoping for a resurrection.
I've got all the skill
But, I'm missing the will.
It's been too long waiting for change
It won't find me...
I am stuck at sea.
Jan 25, 2016
Jan 25, 2016 at 4:01 PM UTC
Miles
on
miles
separate
me from you,
and yet
you remain with me.
I hear your laugh
and feel your skin.
I ache for your mind,
for the way you
unravel me.
I burn with hatred
I cannot find for you.
I shake off love
I cannot dispel for you.
I left,
and you managed to
follow me,
leaving me wondering
if I'll ever be without you,
if there's some way to flush you,
rid your toxicity from my system.
I have been infected
with your infectious soul,
and distance isn't the cure
I thought it would be.
And now,
years later,
it is much too late to
vaccinate.
If only I had known.
Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 1:48 PM UTC
We're all admitted into this disease
Lost within our minds
Suffering our endless pleas
It's an infection in mankind
Inevitable like death
A plague in our hearts
It's our killer yet our friend
A catastrophe written from the start.
Sep 2, 2015
Sep 2, 2015 at 3:53 AM UTC
I used to be best friends
With this girl in my grade
We hung out after school
Almost every day
Until that day
When she met that girl
That one day
That seemed to change my whole world
She started to change
Faster than I expected
It was like her system
Was suddenly infected
Infected with some disease
That's yet to be named
But until then
I will call it Fame
Fame seems to infect everyone
Person by person
The victims can be anyone
The girl that I knew
Well I guess I didn't know her fully
Because she has become something horrible
She has become a bully
She pushes kids in the hall
And teases everyone
Even I have become a victim
Of her symptoms she feels everyday
Where she forgets that I was her friend
And shoves me and calls me names
She says she never liked me
It was just pretend
And that was the moment
I was pushed off the deep end
I walked right up
To her face and said
Words that she would dread
I told her
That we've all had enough
Of being someone
That she bullies and taunts
Just to have fun
She needs to get some help
Because her bullying time has expired
I think it's time that she retired
Because I know she's not like that
The real her is stuck
Screaming inside
But she has been ignoring her
And pushing her aside
Well she finally changed her image
And her bully days were gone
But the days when we were friends
Have been long gone
Because once you take a glass
And throw it to the floor
It breaks in many pieces
That can't be fixed anymore
Because that's the thing about trust
Once it's crumpled it won't be flat
But will this really happen
The future holds the answer to that
Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 11:55 PM UTC
Terminally ill,
infected with lust
curiosity and nerves.
Spreading like a virus,
your words crawl deep
into my veins.
Tongue numb,
lungs struggle
in the midst of this plague.
Embedded in my marrow,
festering in my throat
enclosed by bones,
guarded by ribs
The ache won’t leave, and I’m starting to wonder,
if my chest cavity is better off empty.
Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 6:50 PM UTC