Hello everyone. If you can't guess who this poem is about, well, then
you haven't been watching very long...

KN

Love's Possession


Can you see
one man who has loved
a woman
be torn to pieces
by her actions
yet still be possessed?

To be possessed
by the sea
whose actions
are as mercurial as love
and can tear rocks to pieces
is to be beloved by this woman.

This woman
is possessed
by pieces
of him that she has seen
and loved
despite his actions

Her actions
were not of a proper woman
still, he loved
her and was possessed
by her even though he saw
what she did to shatter him to pieces

The pieces
of his heart were repaired by a friend's actions
who saw
what this woman
did to possess
the one she thought she loved.

He thought he loved
her to pieces,
so he was possessed
by her actions,
by the woman
which was all he saw

He is the possession of a woman
who loves him, but cannot see him
and whose actions cut him to pieces


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