The Devil’s Kiss

A Poem by arie

This evocative poem delves into the tumultuous landscape of love marked by desire, betrayal, and regret. The speaker grapples with the conflicting emotions of attraction and disgust towards a partner,

but the heart knows no logic,
it dances in shadows,
weaving between the lines of pain and pleasure.
Your laughter echoes in my mind,
a melody both sweet and haunting.
I grasp at the threads of memory,
each tug revealing a wound,
each smile a dagger cloaked in silk.

Yet here I am,
caught in the web we spun,
each strand a promise,
each knot a betrayal.
I traverse this tangled maze,
searching for the exit,
but it leads me back to you,
the architect of my undoing.

The fruit hangs low,
tempting me with its allure,
but the bite is bitter,
and I am left to savor the aftertaste of regret.
I wonder if you feel it too,
the weight of what we’ve become,
or if you glide through life,
unfazed by the wreckage we left behind.

I want to scream,
to shatter the silence that binds us,
but the words are trapped within,
like birds in a cage of my own making.
So I watch,
a silent witness to our demise,
as the final curtain falls,
and the echoes of our love fade into the void.

In the end,
I am left with the ghosts of us,
haunting the corners of my mind,
forever entwined in a dance of desire and despair.
And as I breathe in the remnants of our past,
I know I must find the strength to let go,
to sever the ties that bind me,
before the inevitable death becomes my own.