It's eating you, <br />beating you <br />into submission, <br />soaking <br />into every pore and cell <br />of your being, <br />like a germ, <br />making you squirn <br />and sweat. <br />It's flowing through your veins <br />like liquid poison, <br />and being exhaled <br />with every breath. <br />It's a foreign body. <br />Unwelcome. <br />Killing you quietly. <br /> <br />You need an antidote <br />to grab it by the throat <br />and promote <br />what was there before. <br /> <br />Before THAT <br />started eating you.<br /><br />Francesca Johnson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eating-you/
