In the dim light of our shared existence,
Echoes of your words haunt the air,
Sweet poison dripping from your lips,
Binding me in chains invisible but there.
Your touch, a fleeting phantom,
Leaves scars beneath my skin,
A dance of cruel affection,
Where love and pain begin.
Every whispered lie, a dagger,
Piercing deeper than the last,
Promises shattered like fragile glass,
Our future buried in the past.
Yet still, I linger in this shadow,
A prisoner of my own desire,
Hoping for the dawn to break,
To set my heart afire.