My Parasite Poem by Frank Bana

I’ll keep myself in motion now
I’ll find some things to do
While my parasite is feasting
Devouring me clean and blue
Rank with her visionary sight
Burrowing in my heart to feed
Sucking it dry bleeding it white

Lost love can never sleep
She has no peace facility
Travels by day and hunts by night
Eating from the darkness
Bad magic and black water
Carrying blood from skin to skin
My ruthless parasite

The one I cannot exorcise
Carried in my mind
Harnessed to the memories
Of my distant twin and I
Hell’s untamed parasite
The relentless disciplines
That I do not dare deny

Assuredly I don’t lay still
I deploy the herbs and fan
But her fever will return
My parasite slips through the net
Where my suffering began

As I run the course, I lose
More innocence each day
Learning while I pay
For every happiness we knew
I had always heard of this
The preying of a succubus
Nourished by the weaknesses
That I confessed to you

But I had never understood
In all my schools of love
How I could be haunted so
Once I had let go
And claimed back from the dead like this
One vial at a time
Until under the earth we lie
My parasite and I