following my most intense and secret obsessions mercilessly.
you left me,
hair strewn into the creeping ivy from the window.
I love you in the same way I hate you-
wholly and with my entire being.
you are and will always be a secret.
I'm sorry that once you were loved so carelessly
you now guard your heart like
the most expensive artifact in a museum.
I'm sorry that you are the worst thing that ever happened to you.
But that was before you knew me,
before you let something evil into your bed.