A/N: Written for the Pairing Set Bootcamp challenge, 21. Draco/Hermione and for the Freeverse Frenzie competition, poem 101.
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22. Magnetic Pull
They should have despised each other –
they did
But clichés ensnared the best of them.
The blows they exchanged
were the fruits they bit;
that irresistible sweet tang wasted,
dribbling down shirts and robes
Where only a mental tongue
could lick it off.
They cast the metallic pull
aside; two poles of a magnet as they were
it was only in another world
their anonymity could turn to love.
There was – in the end –
too much blood sullying the air
in between.
They could allow
only the tastes upon the air:
little snippets they licked
in chilly winter nights
when they lay all alone
And not even their cruel common-sense
could hinder them.