Mistrust
Nov 6, 2021
The Malignant tree
Mistrust
This poem is inspired by Suma Narayan’s The Tree from Hell That Feeds on Misery
I was stuck especially by this line about the tree’s branches “creeping in to crevices digging out the bones”.
Malignant, malignancy meaning: badly, bad condition, deadly, unhealthy,
the dreaded words. All grow out of cancerous growth, or mistrust, beware!
Mistrust
This seed, this seedling of doubt
as it raises its ugly head
from the dirt and dust of relationships
where it always hides
nip it right there
don’t pick it
throw it
if you pick it.
Let it rest in your palm
wash it,
wrap it in the fabric of forgiveness
spun with the wool of forgetfulness.
Then bury it, burn it, whatever you do
Don’t sow it!
If you bury it in your heart,
don’t let it grow there!
deny it the sunshine of your gaze
don’t feed it with your tears and the heat of your angst
don’t raise it to become a sapling
lest it grows its clawing branches
its green leaves, its dreaded fruit
that sours everything
poisoning the one who harbours it
and the one that is the harbinger
it destroys both.
Its roots “creep into crevices digging out the bones”!
rattling the skeletons of past deeds,
hollowing out any structure, solid and strong
Of a house, a relationship, a country, making everything wrong!!
yes, that’s what mistrust does, it digs deep, hurts hard and breaks bonds!!!
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