SWEET WATER OF REVENGE

You entered my heart 
Like the oxygen, it so desperately needed 
Moving through my being in every blood cell 
Until you consumed me whole.

I awake in your presence and walk in your paths 
Digesting your fruit of anger in the chambers of my mind.

Like a sapling placed in the arms of the earth
And watered from above, you nourished me
With a deep desire for revenge, and I loved it! 
More than life.

In blinded darkness, I could still see your face
And feel your pulse vibrating in my soul 
In sleep, you were my dreams,
I thirst for you like the desert sand.

Then, the day came when my unsatisfied thirst 
Were quenched by your sweet water of revenge
And death seized my soul.

Wilford Barker.