“Anniversary”

You never understood the danger of your beauty
that every man wished to possess
to be in the vicinity of
to passively accept,

I feared the danger of your beauty
the dew back poison spines
the tender trap you set
the sharpest predator with a beautiful coat
holds the strongest poison

21-11-00

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