_i know what love is
love is pain._
love is handing them the knife to slash at your chains
but hoping they
don't stab you in
the back.
***
love is disappointment
it is waiting up for messages never sent
hoping someone remembers
to remember you.
***
Love is a word over spent
very seldom meant
its the arrow of Cupid that kills you.
its an emotion that disappears
after it catches you unaware
its the want not the need that fills you
both elixir and poison
the apocalypse in the horizon
the fear of the loss that thrills you.
the walls not the bridges
the cuts not the stitches
the fire and the thirst that wills you.