“Envy”

It swallows you whole,

It suffocates you til

You can no longer think

Of anything else.

It  fills you in the

Most dreadful way

And drowns you in its

Dark, profound infinity.

Poison running through

Your veins;

Hatefulness shattering

Your heart;

Emptiness. An endless void.

And your soul and body

Forever burned.

Poems by Alice de Menezes Brito