Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks February 2015: Anti-Love | Page 9

La Vie En Rose
Matthew Moynihan
You see me in the shops on Valentine’s Day,
Standing proud and erect,
Awaiting your choice, a choice
Some believe could lead to wedding bells
And pollination.
But I have my own love story.
A story never told.
Inception – earth, air, sun, water.
The elements, my demi-creators,
Demi-destructors yearning me to
Blossom.
The earth in its maternal
Embrace only to strangle.
The air feeding stomatically
Only to suffocate.
The water lubricating, nourishing,
Only to one day drown.
And the sun, showing the light,
The way, only to scorch.
The elements che