Love Vaccine
By La Belle Rouge

she suffered from internal injuries
chronic pain lodged in the soul
that seemed to be resistant
to any and all medication....
other than poetic ponderings

so she took poetry
in massive doses, swallowed whole
she spit it out on the page
co-mingled with heart’s blood
and strangely found relief...
momentarily, in the treatment

it was almost sweet enough
to make life’s bitterness palatable
steaming hot enough to challenge
the hypothermia of her heart
healing enough to sweat out
the chilling fevers of discontent

he was a poet of love, as damaged,
as internally injured as she
purging his pain with a potent pen
soliciting her with promises
of a cure for their mutual malady

but if the poetic physician
has no skill to heal himself
what on earth makes her imagine
he can cure her? they're both
terminally hopeless romantics
searching for a love vaccine
they'll wish they hadn’t found
when at last it gets under their skin



3/31/2008 La Belle Rouge

“Poetry Soul Whispers”

Music "I Just Called To Say I Love You"