Serendipity

Author's Note: Thanks so much for the response I got for "Courage." I appreciate any and all feedback. Frankly, I'm not as confident of my abilities as a poet as I am a writer. Therefore, Serendipity is pretty much as much of a learning experience as I go along as it is for you readers. Keeping this in mind, I unveil "Fulfill Me," my latest short piece. The premise here is that Helga ponders her ambivalent feelings toward Arnold. No, it's not a particularly light-hearted theme either, but I promise to throw in some fluff poems somewhere should you like these others I crank out. Enjoy and keep on reviewing!

Fulfill Me

The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.

- English proverb

This is my solemn declaration:

I utterly and completely hate everything about you.

Most of all I detest those many years that have been wasted,

Slavishly devoted to your ubiquitous presence.

And all the while I only waited for you to somehow notice me,

To give me a little bit of your precious time.

But you always passed me by with barely a second glance;

So I tire of being patient,

Of waiting for a chance that may never come.

Why don't you quit haunting my dreams?

There is nothing left of me to offer;

You drained away my very essence,

With naught but a hollow shell remaining behind.

Yet as surely as the sun rises in the east,

I know one look from you will uplift my spirits again.

Yes, just as I think I am through with you,

Something compels me to return to my silly visions of you and me.

You inspire yet frustrate;

You mercilessly tease and excite;

You pitch me into the deepest throes of heartache,

Then set my soul ablaze.

I cannot live with you,

Nor can I imagine an existence without you.

Don't you see how I'm such a fool for you?

You've got me wrapped around your fingertips;

And you always will have me that way,

Though you may be too blind to ever fully realize it.

So why do you have to let me linger?

Why can't you fulfill me?

Why do I feel such exquisite torment,

And you will not even acknowledge I am alive?

Author's Note: Again, please tell me what you think. Should I continue on?