The fire seems to have cooled <br />The wild flames seem calmer now <br />I thought that I was over it <br />Was glad to be back to normal <br />Thought I was cured. <br /> <br />But now I realize that <br />I'm just infected more <br />deeply within. <br />The cancer's disappeared <br />from the surface, <br />moved into the darker, <br />deeper niches <br />of my heart. <br />Madly, madly <br />it corrodes me from within. <br /> <br />I may be free of <br />the sudden highs <br />the sudden lows <br />But in their place <br />a long drawn-out aching <br />A long sigh <br />and the faraway eyes <br />My mind's in its place <br />but my heart has disappeared <br />into the abyss <br />of its own creation. <br /> <br />Madly, madly. <br />I am contaminated <br />in the most secret <br />areas of my heart. <br />Again and again <br />the acid of this <br />destructive love <br />eats my soul away <br />Only to drive the <br />madness deeper within. <br /> <br />In secret, <br />I shed sour tears <br />full of this <br />corrosive affection.<br /><br />Yiling Ding<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/acidic-infestation/
