Toxic Poem by Maya Hanson

I'm following your footsteps
I'm addicted to your skin
Your voice stings like a heartbeat
every time you pull me in

But the way you catch all the butterflies
makes me fear your breath's too sweet
It's toxic, leaves me craving
convinces me it's all I need

An ember twists up the obsession
exploding in my head
It's beautiful, it's dangerous
I still embrace the flames of red

But the way you catch all the butterflies
makes me fear your breath's too sweet
It's toxic, leaves me craving
convinces me it's all I need

I'm out of control in the hurricane
inhaling your hallucinations
and smoking your scent

I'm latched onto the mirror image
of this toxic pretty face,
the butterflies' friend

Winter exits, arsenic on my tongue
pretending to be spring when
I'm left battered in this April storm
sipping the blood-red cost of love again