Love Poem: Frienemy:To Know My Foe
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Written by: Trudy Schrader

Frienemy:To Know My Foe

You came to me
As an enemy
Feared, Dark, Revered
Steering me toward uncertainty

Avoiding, annoying, destroying
Trust in men
Pricking me to hate
The desire within

Just when I determined
To make my escape
You clung to my words
And wadded up my hate

You threw, withdrew, renewed
The tender love breaking open
Mounted your white steed
And took to loping

  ~through lavender lily fields~

I cast aside
All restraint
Mounted my paint
Galloping through open gates

We rode upon
Unexplored land
Discovering hearts
Devoted to understand

It rained, stained, made it plain
Love has flowered here
Then, the sun arose
Bringing shadow to fear

Vagrant, thief
Out, get out....humiliated

I gathered my soul about me
And ran into the night
Caring not if death took me
...away...no hope, no love...no fight

I cried out in colossal grief
Love, you are my enemy
    I will not look for you again
You only discovered how to leave
Me, lost in the heart of intimacy
     Where I can find the arrows of men