passion ||

love will stain your fingers and mouth

like a pomegranate.

it will swallow you whole and spit you out

red juice trickling from her lip,

wine dark and wanting.

yet

you will reach for it

again and again,

greedy human fingers grasping

never to be satisfied -

no,

you will feel it curl its way into your veins and take you over,

and your soul will be stained with

a passion that is never gone.