For the one I love

 

Take the baby steps and avoid the cracks

Because backs break and hearts ache

Becoming shells of what they once were

Pasts are not forgotten, they linger

Like weeds and warts

Spitting spite like venom from a snake

Those stings are the worst to bear

Take a complacent wife, something silent

Or take none at all, because the venom

Poisoned you a long time ago

Happiness is a hop, skip, and a jump away

Just throw your stone on the right square

Do not let fear consume you

Making you more complacent than I will ever be

You become what you have loathed

When the pain that you must harbor

Prevents you from loving another

Reviews

[Raja]

Fantastic poem. I like the concept and the beautiful flow of words.

Good Work.

Thank you.

Raja

[Logan Carryall]

This is terribly bright.

[Sarah]

I really enjoyed this - the idea of life being like a game, depending on where your stone lands. I really liked the lines "Take a complacent wife, something silent / Or take none at all" & the last couple lines leading up to the end. They were very pretty & wrapped the poem up nicely. Great job with this!

[Hedra Helix]

sweet write;) I love the complexity of the sounds in the first two sentences, complex but it works it out. you remind me of velvet in almost every way.