01 Mar [Poem] Jealousy

Note: This poem was one of the few that was published. This was accepted to The Iconoclast, issue 67.

Jealousy

Jealousy,
grown up,
still acts like a child
when he doesn’t get his way.

Left unattended,
kicking and screaming,
his feelings spread
like cancerous cells
until he cries himself
to sleep.