what i’ll do

i’ll tease you, relentlessly

just short of mockery

i’ll follow you like a pest, a bug

an invasive species, that’s what i’ll be

the itch on your back that you can’t quite reach

i’ll tickle your brain every waking moment

and even in the ones when you’re asleep

i’ll nudge, poke, prod your buttons

i’m disruptive, i’m reckless

i’ll eat up all of your time

i’ll grate away at your block of energy until your bones are too sore to move

it’s just… too tempting to resist

i’ll make you angry

i am the farthest creature from obedience

i’m annoying and manipulative

only sometimes

i’ll fondle your patience like beads on a band

and wait for you to snap

i’ll play with your heart like a ball of yarn

and your mind a scratching post

i’ll make you run

all the way to the coast

just to be rid of me