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Pain flutters like the butterflies I once had for him.
Once it was all I ever needed, how foolish.
His touch burned me to a boil,
Now, the marks left behind only serve as a reminder of my own sins.

What was love deceived? It was only lust.
Passionate, intense - revolting, sickening.
Mirrored images show his marks on silky, hidden flesh.

To love is not to be sucked dry, used to the last inch.
I took him a mile, he smiled and pushed that blade deeper.
Lying in the roadside ditch,
I died waiting for his return.

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