JEALOUSY, YOUR JIHAD
More than just a girl
with too many bags
More than your nightly
primal conquest
The feelings you don't absorb anymore
still exist
The tremors still race up and down
underneath my skin
My heart still feels
with an intensity
that you now save
only for your anger
Too blind to appreciate
the sincerity I emit
the passion I send in your direction
every hour of every day
Deaf, you are, to the rhythm of my heart
struggling
to walk in step
with the rhythm of your
mind over matter
but nothing matters anymore
We are only biological entities
This thing they call Love
merely electro-pulses
in the vast gray glob of the brain
Chemical potions
pheromonic concoctions
cause calamity
and we attach more meaning to
this shit
than any of it warrants
Get up
get by
get over it already
We've got our lives to play with
and that is all you need to know
Past, present and future
pain can be fleeting
if given the chance to flee
But you've got your pain tied up tight
chained in the basement of your soul
I should've guessed
knowing the long leash your pain had you on
when we met
Jealousy is your jihad
You live it every day.