Reasons by Yuu Ikeda

You can choose reasons
to eat poisonous apples.
These reasons are creeping
around you,
as if a demon is trying
to bite your nape.
But you are never able to
make people choose
these reasons to eat these apples.
Your craving for vice
never infects people
who the sun hugs.
Your passion for hate
never cocoons people
who believe the sunrise.

Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.  She writes poetry on her website, which can be perused at https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/.  Her published poems can be found in Nymphs, Selcouth Station Press, Sublunary Review, Sad Girl Review, and more. Her Twitter and Instagram: @yuunnnn77.