Mary Jane

Spirit

Mary Jane


How can you forgive her? 
How can you trust her? 
Her tongue is forked 
And her eyes deceiving 
What is this hope you have 
For a naked girl 
Torn, 
Living in the river of blood 
From her victims? 
Why have faith? 
She is a liar 
She is a beggar 
She is a thief 
And nothing more. 

How can you do this? 
Care so much for bones unbroken 
And blood best left spilled 
On the floor? 
She is sickly on the inside. 
Like a rose she seems fragile, warm 
Soft, 
But hidden beneath white satin petals 
Are hot, red thorns, 
Ever ready to pry the blood from your pores. 
She is full of anger 
Hate 
Which she desires to spread to you. 
She is trapped inside a circle 
Built of thick iron 
That appears to be thin glass. 
Ready to shatter 
Into one million tiny pieces 
That she can never reconstruct.