Of Lions and Snakes

...playing catch-up! 

I got so caught up in Monday's 'favorite things' prompt I neglected Tuesday!

For yesterday’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

1. Write a love poem.
2. Write an anti-love poem.

Love Poem

The body is a lion-cage

Where rage and passion scars

Its bars; who knew a flesh-blood stage

Could hold such holy roars 

Or how across the room from me

You rouse, without a touch

The part of me no one can see

But you love, very much

..and where the cage, to other eyes

Seems quite common, I guess

Beneath the cloth of Bearing lies

Love's pacing lioness

Janet~

anti-love poem

there is no hope in hate

revenge cannot appeal

....the fangs of cruel word can cut

what a lifetime won't heal

the mouth can be fiend

when fueled by pure spite

where dust of skin cannot repel

The venom of hate's bite

be careful what you say

lest in the end you grieve

what forgiveness won't soothe away

the scars; those never leave 

the god of self, it seems

is never satisfied

as it replaces love with lust

humility with pride

...it fills this skin-bone shell

with bitterest of fruit

if, where the hurt of harsh word fell

we let revenge take root 

Janet~