Temptation

Lovely red dripping
Down from my lips, enticing,
Wanting.

Lost in his eyes
A never ending abyss
Pulling,
Screaming,
Thrashing

Control, I lost
Senses, stripped
Hatred, building

Temptation, closing in
Temptation, leave
Temptation, in my hands
Temptation, give in

The Call to God

Driven to the lonely decision
Of mere existence,
I function as a marionette
Energized by power-deprived current
I plaster a smile because they smile
I love because they love
I'm an imperfect reflection
Against the world

When darkness falls,
When the flat separation seeps in,
In the depths of my wandering thoughts,
I whisper, I call, I scream
For God alone can hear

I shut my empty eyes and prayed hard
I prayed for a plant of any kind to keep me company in nights like this
I didn't ask for a flower of the prettiest kind,
Or a cactus which can live through drought,
I asked for a plant, a simple insignificant plant

On a day like any other,
I decided to sail far away
To seek more thoughts and my thoughts alone,
Envelop myself in a humorless cocoon

After a bit of waiting, no colorful flying butterfly came to be,
But God chose to answer my prayer
In the most indistinguishable way possible

Wrapped in my cocoon, warped in my own sense of world,
A plant housed me, took me in and held on to me
I stopped for a while, and opened my eyes
From the core of my being, I wanted to hold on

God answered my prayers and gave me more
and less of what I asked for
He held onto me, I held onto him
But what He didn't choose to give was most precious,
He didn't give time
And all for this short while, I held onto him
Too soon, be apart.