SECRET LOVERS

HER SECRET LOVERS CODDLE HER IN THE NIGHT WITH THE HORRORS OF THE DAY.
THEY BLUR HER PERCEPTION AND MISCONSTRUE HER REALITY.
SIMULTANEOUSLY WHISPERING SWEET DEATH IN HER EAR,
THEY TAUNT HER DREAMS AND ATTACK HER MORALITY.

HER SECRET LOVERS PIN HER DOWN WITH THEIR HANDS OF DECEIT.
THEIR OCCUPATION IS READ AS PART-TIME ILLUSIONISTS.
FOR THE TRICKERY THAT THEY PERFORM AND EMBELLISH,
WHILE RECEIVING HER APPLAUSE AND ADMIRATION AS THE ENTHUSIAST.

HER SECRET LOVERS REEK OF REGRET.
THEIR BODIES ARE PERFUMED IN DECEPTION.
SHE TENDERLY INHALES THE INTOXICATING SMELL OF THEIR COLOGNE,
AND WITH EACH SNIFF SHE’S COMPELLED TO DANCE IN THEIR BLOOD THIRSTY RECEPTION.

HER SECRET LOVERS TRAP HER IN HER NIGHTMARES AND ENGULF HER IN HER TERRORS
THEY CONSTANTLY RIP UP HER HEART AND HAVE HER DANCING ON FALSE HOPES.
IN THEIR POOL OF DESICCATION SHE DROWNS,
AND ON THEIR MISLED GUIDANCE, SHE CHOKES.

HER SECRET LOVERS ARE HER BODYGUARDS, AND SHE IS THEIR SERVANT.
THEY SHIELD ANY AND EVERY CHANCE OF PROGRESSION.
THEY AVERT HER FROM HER BLESSINGS AND LONG-AWAITED OPPORTUNITIES,
AND IN RETURN, SHE GIVES THEM HER SOUL AS THEY CHAPERON HER TO IMMORAL DIRECTIONS.

HER SECRET LOVERS GAVE HER A NEW NAME, A NICKNAME THAT ONLY THEY KNOW.
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HER BIRTH NAME FOR IT IS WHO SHE IS.
THEY DUBBED HER CORRUPTION, FOR IT DESCRIBES HER LIFE IN ITS ENTIRETY.

HER SECRET LOVERS HAVE INTRODUCED DEATH TO HER.
AS THEY BECAME ACQUAINTANCES, SHE LOST FRIENDSHIP WITH TRUTH.
SHE LOVES HER SECRET LOVERS WITH AN INTENSITY THAT CANNOT BE FAKED,
DESPITE ALL THE TIMES THEY’VE HURT HER, RAPED HER THOUGHTS, AND PERVERTED HER SPIRIT, AND ABUSED HER.

BUT THE REALITY OF IT ALL IS THAT SHE ISN’T SO DETACHED FROM ME.
MY PURE SPIRIT AND HER CARNAL MIND INTERCONNECT TO FORM ONE.
SHE IS ME.
TO ME, THEY ARE MY SECRET LOVERS, BUT THE WORLD CALLS THEM LIES.
LIES ARE MY SECRET LOVERS AND I SECRETLY LOVE LIES,
BUT OUR LOVE IS MISUNDERSTOOD, SO I LOVE THEM IN DISGUISE.

This poem is about: 
Me

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