Agony Poem by Taunya Benns

Infused with agony
Distributed precisely
Limitless tears shed
A vein to shoot drugs
Am I
Malignant with power
Releasing me not
From the very words
Reiterate in mind
words as a hot dirk
slicing cream
such disarray
Disorderly conduct
Am I
Required purgatory
For loving you
Art not each day
Melancholy payment?
Least forgotten
Hours of desperation
Within hopes
Never dreams
Lusting for faith
Am I
Faith in loss
Loss of memory
To obliterate
Scars of emotion
Left as gifts
Each time you
Terminate
The love you lay claim
Can you not see?
Leaves falling from
Bare branches
Glass breaking
With no sound
Escape to release
Release to escape
Am I
who you love
through fate
bruised caresses
turning Love to Hate
Tears cascade
Through marble views
No voice left
Crippled to persuasion
Recognizing evasion
Heart captive
No more
Painful
Am I’s
Praying for easy
Goodbyes
As you Inject me with
Agony
I scream for clemency
For I Am unfettered
From the Biased
region of your soul