Hyde

I will never forget

the pain

you caused me

the way you smirked

to inflict it

the time you took

to plot it

the forum

you chose to

showcase it

your excellence

to execute it

It took me 

all by surprise

I never knew

that there 

was so much

evil 

in you

I only saw beauty

I still do

I only felt love

even when I stood by

and allowed it

it was never to see 

how far you would take it

All the way through

I doubted it

all the way through

I had faith in you

and I was wrong

to think so well of you

to reject the warnings

to believe

 in you

Your beauty

conceals

so much ugly

so much hate

there is so much envy

in your Hyde 

How do you

justify this

pride,

so boldly?

The thing that bothers me

is thatI love

an enemy

Copyright©2021 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

SUMO

She fights 

like a sumo wrestler

stripped of everything

but weight itself

She fights

rolling around in a diaper-

mawashi

contained by constraints

in a ring-

dohyō

of self approved

afflictions

She fights

hoping to meet

cheering expectations

of  society-

and its penned script

of what a woman 

should be

She fights

and curses 

the referee-

Gyoyi!

with  condesending

eyes 

she smiles,

a whole show of evil

to self

her only friend

and they agree

that this bout is fixed-

Kotei-sen

So like yokuzuna

she fights

she breathes

nose dilating air

she glares

throwing her body

to the ground

to pin her opponent down

and squeezes

her rikishi

to tears

of blood

then

as she palpitates

she asks menacingly

"Do you still love him?"

An  act of sumo

treachery

strengthening her grip

on her bleeding heart

because this gyoyi 

never counts to 3

Copyright©2021 by Camille Caliscia Patrick