You come faster than you leave.

Your cocoon of lies keeps you warm at night

While I look at my empty bed—

Icicles or daggers stabbing me in the back—

It feels like your lips tracing the spine

You walked all over.

Butterfly kisses like a bullet through my heart—

I flew into your arms

Because you promised me warmth.

And it felt like I was on top of the world,

Looking down on the unloved like I never knew what it was like to wake up alone.

Now your love turns cancerous,

Rotting my body from the inside out.