dazzledust

every time you look at me,             i run out of oxygen baby,  you’ve turned me  h y p o x i c  there’s glitter in the skies,      it falls into my eyes                and blinds me give me a taste of delirium -        we are ambrosial symbiotes i would travel to the underworld     if only to never thirst for you again. 

Your betrayal tastes like pungent water on a hot summer day. If truth had a name, it wouldn’t be yours because all you know how to do is lie. Your words are like a poisonous snake striking at any unwitting opponent until it’s too late and you've buried yourself in the spaces between their ribs and filled their lungs with the toxic smell of you. I used to see you in the stars but now all I have are bruised knees and a body full of lackluster heartache. My veins are full of unanswered prayers and enough regret to pulverize mountains. You kept the pieces of myself that I gave you all wrapped up in a pretty little bow, only to use them against me like daggers aimed at my soul. I thought your love hurt me until I realized you didn’t love me at all - you just liked the love letters I traced on your skin, heartfelt symphonies of a guileless girl. I thought I made wildflowers bloom inside you but your heart is a graveyard of unsung apologies and synthetic hopes. I swallowed a galaxy of