Darren Kemp

Love (poison)

Your eyes
   (staring)
Burning,
   (hot embers)
      Opaque
with dissent
   (why?)
Mirrors
   reflect
      (nothing)
 emptiness,
Transient,
   (with disease)
Infected,
   will I scream?
(will you cry?)
   Softly,
 drips me
   (into you)
nowhere.