Green

Jealousy, weeping green, fresh as tears,
chlorophyll smelling from the sappy wound
leaking pain of loss. Agitated veiny green.
Return my love to me.

Congealing envy compacts; folding bitterness,
sadistic neglect and bile, turns from green
to yellow, dark brown, sharp,
rancid with want and intent.
The air turns old, murderous.

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