The Scorpion

I loved you without knowing you.

I loved you without knowing your nature.

My blood burns with your venom.

All my joy has turned to pain.

I craved you without understanding you,

What you are, what you would do.

Where you stung me still festers.

I fever with my feelings for you.

I worshiped your broken lines.

I prayed for your poisoned soul.

We choose in this life what we do,

You chose to pretend and then strike me so.

What once was sweet as wine,

It has turned to the taste of sour grapes.

My trust is shattered by you.

Your betrayal stabs at my unarmored soul.

In time I hope I will forget your face,

But I will bare the scar of you all my life.

I have pulled your stinger lodged from in my heart.

I doubt it will ever crave another.

You are a Scorpion with no heart to tame,

With no conscious only its instinct.

I planned to sacrifice everything to carry you through a life together.

But you forgot me as soon as I was out of sight.

You are a deceiver wrapped in a beautiful face,

You act so carelessly with other’s hearts.

Your selfish nature drags me down.

I pay the price for our crossed paths.

I feel the water rushing up.

Under murky depths I sink into its grip.

I sacrificed without knowing what you are.

Your lips were sweet yet whispered lies.

On you moved onto the next one.

I am discarded and forgotten by you.

You have damned me to this fate.

But, you cannot see you have damned us both.

I was only trying to love and save you.

You did not deserve my kindness, nor my trust.

But, I pity you more than hate you.

You are a creature ruled by its instinct.

My love would have ferried you across this river.

But you were true to your nature.

My broken heart weighs me to the bottom.

And now I slip beneath the waves.

I am another piece of discarded wreckage in your wake.

And you are another lost wish I never should have made.