What Was Love

Softly walking on eggshells
So not to wake the ugly the truth

Heaven’s embers have died
What seemed perfect
Has been the chains
Bringing you down

The masquerade continues
For sanity to survive

Love is a fist
Hate wrapped in a kiss
Gentlest of touches
To the eventual bloody slap

Paradise is burning
Taste the ash in your throat

Believing those whispers
Brought a silent hell
An angel’s smile
Behind a devil’s anger

The veneer covered it all
Enough to pull you in

Now nothing is ever right
Every breath waits
For the change of mood
To come crashing in

What was love
Is now fear