that day i’d just come home from school when she knocked on my door

it had been another of those days

i felt wounded

yet struggled to the door

there she was

the girl

her skin was pale almost as if she was the moon,

her skin dark like jet black ink that i use to exile my thoughts

her eyes just looked like buttons

i just stood and stared at the air of black dust the surrounded her

the snake around her kneck

that’s when she wrapped her tentacles around me

she embraced me

I should of been scared

But in that moment i took comfort in her darkness

i invited her in

she was my friend

Or the only being I had by my side

she clung to my back as if i was her only escape, my back had claw marks on it

her snake bit me

and that my love was the day i kicked you out

leaving your flowers along the path you left on

The brightness along with it

The warmth

My warmth

i kept the doors locked

wallowing the beauty of her darkness

like a rose you admire trying to ignore the thorns piercing your skin

Leaving scars all over my body

Until I could only view myself as one big scar

we stood together for hours at my mirror listing my faults

i’m sorry i picked their side , her side

i joined them with the pitchforks

when you get bitten by a snake you are meant to suck the venom out

I spent years trying to work out what id done to deserve the snake bite

Begging her for answers

you would of never let me fall like i did

i betrayed you

Your light I banished

Our light.

one morning i woke up wrapped in her arms

The same arms i once perceived as a hug

not noticing the chains she’d put around my wrists

That was the morning I stood in my bloodstained clothes

That was the morning I realised I was ready

I was ready to let the darkness go

I left my shackles and banished her

Changing the locks as she left

I opened the doors

and i let you back in

The light flooding through my door

i never was the best to you

I was never the best to me.