Pretty Poison Poem by Lacie Hebert

You tasted like sweet tea on a summer night,
Spoke like everything would be alright.
But every promise carried a hidden blade,
And every memory came with a price to pay.

You loved me loud when people could see,
Then turned your silence into punishment for me.
I spent years watering flowers in drought,
Trying to save something already dying out.

Now I know poison doesn't always burn,
Sometimes it waits for your trust to return.
Sometimes it smiles, sometimes it stays,
Sometimes it steals whole years away.