Join Me: Rebellion

as the decades passed, my druid goddess's animal presence gradually palled
and i tired of her sensuous words, i grew impatient with her cancerous influence.
my devotion dissolved into anguish and her insidious grip seemed to loosen
as her true nature was revealed to me in increasingly loathsome detail.

i railed against my fate, and emboldened by the cover of my lover's weary sleep
my anger grew as my courage buoyed, and i cursed my monstrous oppressor;
“mock savior! would that i had seen past the shadows! hoary demoness!  
demented succubus! your despised spell is diminished with your every cursed breath!
see how beautiful and content you are as you glow and pulse with my life's blood!”

horrified, i tore at her, ripping her verdant essence from my skin by the handfuls
as i attempted to free myself from her root-like spiderhold.
my struggles seemed hopeless as her strength had been fed by the eons
and i proved small match for her power; with each vein torn free another was joined.
finally, summoning a seemingly preternatural force of will i severed her grasp;
her insidious hold was broken and i rushed to make my escape and gain my freedom...

i fled in a panic, stumbling over the forest floor, lurching about in my confusion
and cursing my maker with each misstep for the hell he had so cruelly devised for me.
flagellating branches tore at my skin as i passed incoherently through the sylvan maze,
and i was blinded as hot blood welled in my eyes and streamed down my face.
slowly, sweetly, morphine whispers slipped between the forest's children,
drawing me back with a pull as loving as it was powerful,
as warmly soothing as it was insistent,
and i soon succumbed, forced to admit the futility of my foolish endeavor.

abashed, i returned to my lover's leafy embrace,
weeping, mewling like a newborn and begging her forgiveness.
i curled into the curve of her soft sweet breast, her probing roots took hold,
and her dark shade enfolded me once more as she uttered again those fearfully
irresistible words, that gentle hiss;
“join me my lovely, partake,
that the night might never end...”