Sunday 28 June 2009

Tempt

TEMPT

–verb (used with object)
1. to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
2. to attract, appeal strongly to, or invite.
3. to render strongly disposed to do something.
4. to put (someone) to the test in a venturesome way; provoke.
5. Obsolete. to try or test.



Tempt me.
Although it is cruel.
Tempt me
Please be my jewel
Tempt me.
Show me as a fool
Tempt me.
Lead me, be my school
Tempt me.
Let’s have that duel
Tempt me.
Please, please, please be cruel

2 comments:

martha said...

That's provocative. What can be in that Minnesota air you're breathing to prompt that?

spacedlaw said...

Wrote that last week, in fact. Not sure what prompted it (although it might have been a counter balancing act from the Envy poem).