Extended Metaphor Poem (Original Draft)

  Jealousy

It worms its way in, like a parasite it gnaws and pries at your brain.
Leaving holes where reason and security were housed. They are burned away by acid.
It eats away at your very core. Once the apple is bitten,  
pure flesh gives way to rot.

Everything is blurred, green eyes make vision hazy.
It is impossible to see beyond the dense, low hanging fog.
Desperately you cling to the shore, and viciously you are swept away.
No saving anyone from the riotous sea of distortion.    

                                                                                                 

The parasite eats away, the waves thrash on,  
and the hole in your chest grows stronger,  
throbbing with power and conviction,    
as unjust as it may be.                      

                                                        

Sitting back on bristling haunches you grow,      
half blind and frothing from the mouth.      
Reality has slipped out like a rug from under your feet.    
You are no longer on firm ground, monstrous you become.