Love Marks

A painful love is the love they yearn for most.

Sometimes the love is not love,

but torture disguised as contentment.

The bruises are shaped as hearts.

They're not hurting,

they're love marks.

They can only take so much of the pain.

To them, that love is the only love they know.

That contentment is no longer hidden.

The bruises are just bruises,

ugly bruises.