After We Burned

Love made you weak.

Obsession made you fatal.

Possessiveness made you delirious.

We were all of those things - A mirage of love splattered on a gritty canvas. Painting distorted figures chasing empty hearts.

A dark romance of survival.

Quaking hearts burning slow.

A ruse branded by greed’s honeycomb sweetness and betrayal’s tang.

His love was real and I pretended…

She exposed her wounds and I attempted to heal them forgetting my own.

Love tested time.

Lies replaced vows.

Secrets created chaos.

And with every sin, there is a consequence…