03 September 2021
As is becoming tradition, here is a pile of poetry born of sleep deprived delirium, Slytherin Edition™. 🐍
Batteries not included.
I’ve saved up every disquieting thought
that you’ve gifted me,
every uncomfortable sensation,
and wrapped them carefully
to return to you.
From here on they’re yours to carry.
I have no need.
Vengeance is the serpent’s coil
a slow drip of poison on the tongue
the sudden gasp from a lover’s lips
the sweetest release
a sin surely worth the price.
Wretched creature, may you succumb to a famine of spirit.
Let my justice be slow, but absolute.
You may sleep
but will find it fitful.
You’ll have no rest
and find no peace.
You may drink to excess,
but no substance on this earth
will ever slake your thirst
Or fill your hollow days with meaning.
You will cry out
and no one will help you
or hear you
or care.
And you will question,
“Can I?”
flickers of hesitation that compound
into days
and weeks
and years of time
you can never recover.
In those quiet moments
when you are alone and desperate,
look again over your shoulder.
Know that I was there,
just out of view,
that I saw your weakness
and that it pleased me.