Let’s Not Fall in Love

Let’s not fall in love.

Lest you end up being my true love.

Because it cannot be you.

You with your ruby smile, looking cute with your glasses askew.

You with voice like a summer's day,

it is you with whom my heart could stay.

Let’s not fall in love.

Together, our hands fit like a glove,

but not when your hands shake with rage

as you make the living room your stage

at which you humiliate me with taunts and screams

as I continue to bleed, the black out, retreating into dreams.

Let’s not fall in love.

Because I hate you, my dove.

And it took broken bones and glass in my eye

to realise that you were the bad guy.

I believed every taunt.

Haunted

by every word.

Even as I bled and my vision blurred,

you were my world.

So I stayed

and prayed

that you wouldn’t prey on me again.

But the truth is, you are insane,

so let’s not fall in love.

In fact, former beloved,

for all the pain to which I had succumbed...

I hope you get better.

Because I fell in love with you.