poison

poison disguised as candy. 

how sweet and charismatic. 

couldn’t get enough until--

sicker and sicker,

weaker and weaker,

sadder and sadder. 

poison that left me dried out,

deflated, nothing left

painful, unraveling my thread. 

my friends, they knew i was consuming

they tried to stop me but

they looked like the poison to me

poison disguised as love. 

the taste i finally found

and i wanted every drop