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Rose pedals atop red raspberries<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A gift, I knew, consumed me<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I gave it freely<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nectar nurtured you and healed me<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now intruders have ordered to sever the tie<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which held me together for two years<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaving a vacuum in my heart<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And streams of tears down your velvet cheeks<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They made me perform atrocities<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like spreading a fine dusting of pepper<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To deter your craving<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And forced me to feed you lies instead of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pure milk<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe raspberries are sick. They\u2019ll hurt you.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But all that hurt was me rejecting you<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And your rose pedals pulled apart so<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unnaturally<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What atrocities!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I lie here in this cocoon of pain<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wrapped in a blanket to secure in the warmth<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that\u2019s left me<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currents, torrents, floods escape from<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every crevice but my breasts<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

which long to comfort you<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to comfort me, to heal me and make me<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

whole again<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I lost myself in the nurturing from my flesh<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Earthly thing could ever replace that?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And still you cry, kiss, caress and beg for two to nini<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To meet divine rest<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a mouth full of warmth from berries<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But a man-made thing called time severed that tie<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Called instinct and longing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I leave you to rest with obnoxious videos on YouTube<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A cheap substitute for heavenly nectar<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes the pull is too great<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and you suck me back from the void<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With traces of pepper still on your lips<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We relapse when roses and raspberries meet<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rose pedals atop red raspberries\u00a0 A gift, I knew, consumed me\u00a0 I gave it freely\u00a0 Nectar nurtured you and healed me\u00a0 Now intruders have ordered to sever the tie\u00a0 Which held me together for two years\u00a0 Leaving a vacuum in my heart\u00a0 And streams of tears down your velvet cheeks\u00a0 They made me perform atrocities\u00a0 … Continue reading “Weaning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[9],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":9,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"hiba-oua","display_name":"Hiba Ouaoulmest","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0385cdac4cabdbcfe31f1a6bbb17981e449bcb8f04a4353e3eb7bd60479e561e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Ouaoulmest","first_name":"Hiba","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}