DILEMA by karen marie christa minns (2021)

You flooded me
With your Soul’s delight.

The only way
to ban you
Is to wrap my heart
in black leather.

Zip it,
tight.

Airless, now,
as an Ancient Tomb–
to wait, for the coming of
A moonless Night,

O,
how to leach Light
from
an emptied
Room?