The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

DATE

Dec. 22, 2024

Creative Writing Laker Review

Student Spotlight: ‘Tumor’

Malevolent mastermind

Makes morals a malignancy.

Someone so charming and benign

At first changed his consistency.

Damaged deceiver dependent

On getting what he wants:

Cajoling and coaxing independent

Individuals and with their hearts he taunts.

Calling, crying, characterizing

These women with his wounds.

Wishing to wash away, empathizing

With his terrorizing, tumultuous tunes.

Little lies longing

A less-lasting love in lives.

Used in a malicious manipulating

Game where his hurt ego thrives.

Naive. Not knowing

His heinous intentions

Are secretly sewing

Women’s insecure interventions.

After he finishes using

His objects, he gains their constancy

And leaves. They see each other and his abusing

Ways, wiring feelings of envy and jealousy.

Left lonesome and lied to.

Still struck by his charm and humor,

Unable to understand the utopic man who

Is not a man at all, but a tight tumor

Around their hearts and minds,

Slowly suffocating each of them

And sometimes he grinds

Against their hearts, killing one of a kind gems.


Graphic by Patrick Higgins | The Oswegonain