For My Would Be Suitor

The Persistent Suitor - Frederico Andreotti

When affection first blossomed here

The springing growth did catch me

Completely off guard - so unaware

No kernel was planted within my sight

I, ignorant of its forming

As an unspoken, germinating seedling

Growing between us

How could this be?

When infatuation first unfolded here

I battled hard; clawing, yes, brawling

Fighting mad - drawing blood

As I only imagine

Wild animals do battle

Insanely bent; crazy never to be caught

Not to be erased – slaughtered – laid waste

Dissolved – coalesced to one half of a duo

So struggled I, valiantly

For my one and only life

When devotion first announced herself

Unbidden, unwanted, unwelcome, unwarranted

I felt hemmed in

By arm's caged embrace

I was lethally brutal

Poisonously severe

No gambling coquette, I

Rejected you outright

Chased you from my borders

Bade you not return

Go now,

Would be suitor

I ask nothing from you

Except for your absence

I desire nothing else

But your exit from

These premises
Leave me now, kind Sir

To live alone in peace

Go now,

Find a woman

Who might treasure, love, adore you

As I am not she

And never will be