Infection

Infection - Jaylee Angulo (Saugus High School, Eleventh Grade)

How do you react when bacteria builds up slowly within you

Lurking quietly, wrapping ropes around your bloodstream

Tying them tighter to cut of your circulation

Yet whispering sweet, delirious words into your ears

And a sense of purpose is found within the strangling

As if you simply could not live without

The soft, delicate breathing of an infection

Hugging you as if there was no other vital option to survive

It feels good to be needed- to be wanted 

To be loved.

So desperately.