Bitter-Sweet Sickness

Smell of Sweet, wafting through the air, subtle

Hazily I wake and stumble,

Smooth, soft, like melting cinnamon sugar

Tip-toeing, dark Danger pushed her;

Soft Sweet collapses, shocked Danger follows;

Now, dominance, Danger borrows,

A strong strike causes sheer, sharp pain;

Sweet with Danger, balance flawed reign;

Now a weak, faint border stretches thin, snap.

Their ornate dance, a knavish trap;

Seductive, imperceptible Danger;

Though free, a predator, to restrain her.

Sweet thinks Danger daring and deceitful,

Danger perceives Sweet as frightful;

False observations drawn from the surface;

Encounter feared too treacherous,

Infinitely Irreconcilable,

Neither one recognizable;

Together ill 'till their forbidden meet,

Agonizing heartache, sick, bitter-sweet.