Fight or Flight - Original artwork and poetry

You play with fire and pretend
It wasn't a predetermined game
To watch me roast and burn?

Enjoy the show, my dear friend,
the blaze will come right after!
The big finale worths a toast!

You're an intriguing man!
You blurbed out your line,
And no guts for the end?

I'll take your silence for an "yes",
A gray wolf searching validation;
Fight or flight is the only consensus!

I will not be your "sometimes"
Don't take me for a fool,
Or let yourself deceived by

The smile upon my face;
These eyes have seen more
Than you think, much more!

"Fight or Flight", the illustration above, is an ink drawing I realized these last few days on 8.5" x 11" Strathmore paper.

Here are some of the poems I previously published here on Hive and on Steemit: **IT STARTS AND ENDS WITH YOU** | **OUT OF METAPHORS** | **PARADOX** | **NO FREE WILL** | **TOMORROW** | **BITTER MOON** | **TAME YOUR FEAR** | **CHOOSE LIFE** | **MARIPOSA\`S SONG** | **A PAWN** | **ROAR**| **BEHIND THE CURTAIN** | **LET WIDOWS SMILE**| **QUEEN OF SHAME AND BLAME** | **COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS** | **LAST WISH** | **PREDICTION**| **DRAWN TO BLACK** | **BRUISES** | **RED CARDINAL**| **INCOGNITO LIFE** | **CROWN OF QUILLS** | **STOLEN LIVES** | **THE KITE RUNNER** | **THE MOUNTAINS** | **BALAD** | **SHOOTING STARS** | **YOU ARE NOT ALONE** | **ALL BOUT LOVE**| **A TALE OF A MINNOW AND A WHALE** | **LONG WAY DOWN 1** | **LONG WAY DOWN 2**| **SPIDER QUEEN** | **MINA'S EULOGY** | **THE CIRCLE OF LIFE** | **YOU KNOW IT ALL** | **CONFESSION OF A HUSBAND** | **BROKEN DREAM**| **THE RETURN OF A HERX** | **CLOSE THE DOORS** | **IT IS LOVE** | **BROKEN SOUL** | **FREEDOM** | **SPEECHLESS** | **CHECKOUT POINT** | **TEENAGE YEARS** | **PINK**| **PAIN** | **DARE** | **LOST** | **HEAVEN CAN WAIT**| **THE DEMON WITHIN**| **ANCHORED** | **A PLACE I LONG TO BE** | **ETERNAL LOVE** | **ONE LONG HOUR** | **CHANGING SKIES**

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Lavi Picu is an interdisciplinary artist, currently residing in Montreal, Canada. She is an emerging visual artist who uses painting and poetry as alternative forms of self expression as well as pain management therapy for Lyme disease. She is also the author of four soulful collections of poetry.

@2022 Lavi Picu aka Lyme Poet. All rights reserved.

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