Love Poem: A Sickness
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Written by: Edward Ibeh

A Sickness


   you're 
damaged goods, 
      people say 
    many 
       implored me 
to run, 
    not walk, 
              far away 
from you; 
    they told me 
             loving you 
was a sickness, 
      but I'd take 
my chances 
fighting 
      against 
the beast within....
   a feeling
that keeps on
      b l o o m i n g 
in my heart 
            for you
I'm deaf 
to all entreaties.
it's me and you
           v e r s u s
 all of humanity!
if my devotion to you
is indeed...
         "a sickness" 
then...
I want 
     no cure, 
I need 
     no doctor, 
and I'll take 
     no drugs; 
I'd rather remain...
sick.