Lamia and Jealousy
For some there writhes a serpent in the brain
From whose lewd jaws foul venom spews
Upon the root-strings of the tongue.
That monster feeds on love but vomits bile,
Most bitterly on those whose trust is near.
That Lamia is termagent or brute,
Bully or nag, is character
Debased by such a madness which
Compels unfair attacks upon hez kin
Who are most fond of hem, who are most close –
Hez mate and children innocent of hate –
Whose only fault is that they love
Too much to flee hez viper tongue
Or blows, so suffers such injustices.
For some there rots an abscess in the mind –
A cancer which mutates each thought
To something horrible and gross –
Which yields not to cool reason nor hot love.
Poison it burgeons at increasing rate
Until corruption festers all it knows.
That cancer’s name is Jealousy.
Spawned of Self-pity out of Fear,
It only can destroy what it may touch
And is not ruthful at its victim’s pains.
Concern it has, but for itself alone,
To gorge its basest appetites
Until it has consumed the hearts
Of those whose blighted lives it preys upon.
Finding the family home raging ablaze,
A careful owner runs to save
Those treasures that are kept within,
But by the furious flames is beaten back
Time and again, however se essay.
Dispirited, se rests awhile in hopes
Hez strength will soon return to hem,
So se may once again attempt
The late preservance of hez precious store;
But, even as se swoons, se is assailed,
Tormented by those flying sparks which leap
Out from the embers of hez life
Roused from despair by greater loss,
Se once more plunges through the holocaust.
This is the lot of each unfortunate
Whose fate it is to be espoused
To Lamia or Jealousy.
No reason nor true tender care can bring
Relief from unjust sufferings unsought.
Se cannot ever put that furnace out
Which now devours hez heart’s rare wealth.
Hez only hope is but to pray
For swift salvation through a sudden cure –
A miracle indeed! – to rescue hem
From utter ruination at the loss
Of that dear soul – whom still se loves
Despite its hideous defect –
Else why should God allow such agonies?.
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(Note: ‘Se’ = ‘he/she’; ‘Hem’ = ”him/her’; ‘Hez’ = ‘his/her’. J.A.B) .
