A Thank You Note to My Foes

Artwork: Melancholy - Mike Robinson, 2003

to all my
enemies,
my dearest
foes,
rivals and
arch~rivals
alike:

thank you.

i swoon
with
gratitude
at the
myriad
annoyances,
those petty
madnesses
you've sent
my way.

you've sent
me
on forays
into the
very edge
of madness;
pushed me
to the
brink,
the very
border
of death.

again,
thank you.

how i
hope
someday
i can
repay
your lovely
gifts
in kind...

...and then
some.