dark and deadly, you're the snake that lurks in the grass.
waiting to say something pale and ambiguous
with a question mark that hangs in space.
and it's beautiful,
mysterious and capitalized in all lower case.
the way you shy away from the light
reminds me of a child too afraid to have their say.
like the click of my heels against the cold floor
is too good to stay.
like a star-crossed love too toxic to last.
we cling to each
other in lieu of the past.
smirk and i fall to pieces
you're my terror
fate
my weakness.
breath on my face, charge in my veins,
the drug i can't replace.
you're only the latest in line i suppose.
another notch on my belt, i guess
nothing could change the way i've felt.
i can't feel it any less.
the pain is still there but it's numbed
with the thought of who we could be
and what we've become.
together we're only more twisted
but i feel like we hide a piece of ourselves in each other.
we're stranger to others
but lovers together.