Veiled Love

The true depths of selfishness
I had never touched
Until I met you
Never feeling its cuts,
I could never have knew
Just how bladed it was
Victim after victim, a gluttonous lust
Seeming to serve you all that you want
While feeding on your primal thoughts
Stripping the essence from all that you love
Instilling the eternal instinct of one

caught in the grip of sadness
I was dragged into a fiery realm
my tears white with phosphorus
Burning holes through my skin as they fell
These iron chains
Forged from Vulcan’s flame
hold me to this molten ground
Inert and desolate I lay
in the belly of a voracious Hell

It was there, I first felt your touch
Mistaking it for love  
As you Wiped the tears from my cheek
Unnoticed by me
Were the burns your hands did not receive
And I melted into your touch,
Desperate to be enough,

You rehearsed the lies
You told disguised
As all my favorite things
So from inside your spell
I was to blind to see
That you had no scars on your feet
Yet barefoot through Hell
You roamed free

Tunneled was your view
Only seeing you
In your kaleidoscope mirage, I was lost
Nothing exists,
just you and the witch
She feeds on your gluttonous thoughts
Isosceles love, entangled I was  
In the threads that fell
From The witch's veil  
her truths all concealed
As it hung

You cloaked me in fantasy
Swept me off my feet
Fed to me clotted love
you said were berries
And with every bite
A thicker fog claimed my sight
And unbeknownst to me
Was a trap already sprung
I was engulfed, entombed in love
And for the first time, I could hear the witch speak

"I am his," she shrieked
"Leave now," she howled
Then with demonic laughter, she said unto me
"For from you, he will feed
And with his greed, I will breed
And from my womb his dreams I will bore"

My second mistake was in this moment made
For I blamed the tainting of our love
On the grip of a succubus
And with no real view of the truth, I swore
To free you from her grasp
With freedom at last
A beautiful life we could have
Our roots finally breaking through the floor

Day after day, there would prove only pain
for your freedom to love, I fought
Or at least, so I thought
But as life dimly passed
Time chipped away at your mask
The shadowed veil was now torn
Caught in my gaze
Was the cast the light made
A shadowy display of your horns

And once you knew you'd been caught
You threw what was left of me
in the deepest part of the swamp
And As I sank
Past the souls that had already paid
Into the bottomless dark
I expected to hear
The witch’s malicious laughter
But it wasn’t there
I expected to see
Her snarled grin
From ear to ear
But it too was not there

And my heavy heart
Now full of rock
Quickened my fall
through the nothingless swamp
Where even fear, feared to stay
It was in the silence I found my strength
And in the absence of all
I heard my name
it was my voice that echoed through  
Demanding I rise from my pain
Insisting I remember the truth  
That I am stronger than you

The witch's true name
Found in a reflection’s view,
revealed through a mirror of time  
That every scar of hers was to mine  
 
Her words I could hear once more  
For into my ears, they poured  
"From you, he will feed  
And with his greed, I will breed  
And from my womb his dreams I will bore"
Not a version of me, but a shell
A woman too familiar with Hell
It was she who wore the cost
Of a love disguising rot
Created from her a hollowed husk
it was a warning she was sending
Showing me my prophecies ending

My eyes are opened, unlocked
A clearer picture of you I have found
There was never an us
Just you and your self-lust
My heart I picked up off the ground
As I gathered my strength
No longer afraid
With the missing piece of myself, I'm rebound
I have taken back what is mine
And out of your custom-built Hell, I will climb