Of Being An Enemy Poem by Marie Legaspi

Of being an Enemy


How do you know when one is an enemy,
And how do you define one?
Is an enemy a person?
Or is it just a pigment of your imagination?

How do you create an enemy?
How do you become one?
Why is it too difficult for me to define this word.
When it describes my being

When that’s how I am being called
The worst enemy!
And how will I call the person saying
This to me?

When I only know her by one name
When I only know her as the last person
Who would hate me
When I know her as someone who is very
understanding and loving

when I love her so much
how can she be...my enemy?
my first word was her and my last
and it will stay that way MAMA.