Today’s writing prompt at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie is Opposing Forces. We must use the following antitheses in our writing:
– whisper and shout
– humid and dry
yet, you whisper them sweetly
— those cruel, ugly words —
that shout at
the tender places of my heart
too often
your hateful ways make me
wish I were deaf
Our love, once sublime
has sublimated like dry ice
on a humid day.
Ergo, the Ogre 
Tell it like it is