ADDICTED TO LOVE

 

I have given her only love

And tender affection

In return I get only contempt

In its equal measure

I cannot cut the bond

The unseen umbilical

That binds me to her

I am a slave to her will

Chained and imprisoned

By a dominating mistress

Cruel and controlling

In an invisible metaphor

Her words are like whips

That lash me with cruelty

Each word laced with

Bile and poison

That cuts into me deeply

But never scars my flesh

If only one word

Bore but a hint of kindness

I would be uplifted

But I remain down cast

My hopes and dreams

Have faded into ether

Enslavement has led

To a foul dependency

Now I am addicted

To her poisonous love

The stuff of nightmares