Mary E. Rogers

BLANDISHMENT

Entice me into your web
With your words of praise
Then move in for the kill
While I'm lost in your deceitful maze
Flatter me for just a second
Until I leave the room
Then go back to your knavery
Let the waging tongues resume
Expel me from your clique
Let the blandishment increase
I don’t need the wheedling
Now the whispering can cease

Submitted for the August 2005 IWVPA Club Theme Project, “Blandishment”