I have been a fool Bewitched For a man who viewed himself to be above It I succumbed to love and it's fallacies I gave in to the cruelest deception of them all the wounds I bore for you. All was in vanity Just to satiate my empty hopes Staring into an empty sky, imaging the presence of stars. But to no avail. I claimed that I'd let my heart sink down to the mud. But it was your very same fingers that willingly chose to push it down. Attempting to suffocate it And while I yearned for your touch. Your fingers lack the warmth you shared with me For it has been tainted. Given to others Not out of love. But rather. As a tool to provide temporary peace To fill in the cavity you had. The one I had. The one I hoped you'd suffer from A suffering that would be tethered to the love we had. I still have. But you're playing a cruel game with my heart. Forcing it to affirm your fears. That I hate you. And I do. I do hate. Hate your actions What you've become But. Not you. Not, who you were. And while you now have become by bane One with no light to trail me along One no longer worth suffering for. I will choose to continue and lay in my agony. Because in the concoction of what you are. Remains the memories. Remains the women I fell for. The women who diminished my fear of pain. And while it is all but a ghost haunting my current existence. The sight alone is worth it. Because that foolish hope. Will satiate. Satiate that yearning. The yearning burrowed deep within me. That you are still who I love. That this, is but an act of self preservation That deep down. Burrowed within you. Your cavity has molded itself Secretly hoping for my return.