Scarlet Heart Poem by Stephanie Apila

I'm a wretched lover
I have started to live in despair
I hope it makes you feel better
Because you didn't hesitate to leave

I thought i had got a partner for life
I fibbed to myself that it was for life
I lived my life engulfed in false hope
Adoring a monster in a humanoid mask

With all my heart in love
I thought i would harvest love
That love was a lake of fire incognito
And succumbed to a wounded heart

I had no idea all lengways
That what we errected was bunkum
Sixty months set ablaze
And in the air, a heart wanders.
STEPHANIE APILA