Poison

Give him an inch

And grasping greedily

Happily he

Will take a mile

Have and hold it close

Until inextricable

I can’t pull it back.

 

As compromise trickles unabated

The sign of a deeper wound

Shall I elastoplast this desire

Dulling it’s pain?

 

Until it seems I’m drowning

In my selfishness

And in these moments

I don’t care.

 

But there is too much to lose

Surely now, I have to swim against the tide

That tries to pull me under

I have to expose this unhealed scar

And the poison it infuses.