Reluctant Parasite

A parasite, I know no shame

It’s who I am….destined to

A life of emotional beggary

I cling on to you, your soul and

Your words…

I suffer the time you take to

Let me in. To let me be.

I wait with feigned patience

For sustenance.

I want to leave you. But I’d die

And you’d not care because

I am beneath your ground….on soil

You left all those minutes ago

To rise tall in a new world

With no reasons to look beyond

The self.