Chapter 10: Retraction

I must apologize for the poem. I really don't know what possessed me to try to relate my first words about Anika in verse. I haven't hazarded poetry for years, and it shows. It's an example of the lowest kind of poetry--boring prose chopped up into "free" verse. Besides that, the thing fails to convey even a single image. I really feel awful. I can't fathom what possessed me. I have seen possessed humans before and never thought it could happen to me. But what's done is done. There is no taking it back. The only way forward is through a swamp of shame.