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Tonight was my first night performing a poem to an audience
Wanted to see what you Gaians thought
The title is an arabic phrase. I hope you can get the meaning of it by the end

Sam Badani

Vibrant yellow back
Defiant black streaks
Deceptively cute
Solid almost artificial blue unlike the sky or ocean
Speckled with the night
Assuming an artificial rainbow
Small eyes that radiate innocence
And an equally built body
You're a poison dart frog
But you were raised in a forest fending for yourself
captivity says your diet would render you poison less
But you've ingested alkaloids
Psychotropic substances
You use them to protect yourself
Psychedelics have brought you questions you'd rather not answer
I've indulged in the natural poisons
I can see beauty in harm
But if I let you be, I know you're no harm to me
Though, I'm a little to late
You're delicate and I am clumsy
You've warned me silently that your physicality is your weapon
You enticed a green monster
I yield to what yearns to cradle your amphibious nature, so unique to a monotonous world
An open wound lets your corrosive membrane transfuse my blood
You flood me
And oh, I moan. Action potential discharged, the sensory impulses to my brain.
You stop feeling slippery in my hand as I begin to rust
Little one, you escape my hands
I reach to rescue you from gravitys fall
But I am paralyzed
Thickened blood, what went so wrong
Tender in touch, I didn't hurt you
But your shield reflected your inner malintent
Black mamba venom indisputably pierces the skin
Betrayal of innocent wonder
Black widow toxin an unblunted destruction of the dermis
But you came in a celebrated color
How am I to trust visual credibility of sinlessness
When the beauty that once enticed me
Has hardened the sanguine essence that filled me with vitality and awe


If it bothers you that it's a brick of text let me know. It was handwritten and I kinda just typed it up xD