Roses are Red Violets are blue …..You know sometimes I can’t really stand the sight of you

Roses are red violets are blue

Sugar is sweet and I thought were too

I wish you knew...just how weak these battles left me.

I wish you knew how breathless I become after every blow to my already asphyxiated lungs.

You… drowned my spirit, stabbing my self-esteem 100 times even upon the pronunciation of death

Yet still you had the gull to look me in the face and say “I…love...you”.

See love is patient love is kind love does not play games or torment your mind

And everyday you pained me with pressures to conform to the fictitious formality of your definition of

“Free”… your new altered meaning of “me”

Had people believing, contemplating compromise was the only way to conquer.

But as we both concur; there’s levels to every warped reality

Stuck in your own state of actuality, you were like the devil on my shoulders

Weighing me down like heavy boulders.

Your breath

Reeked of hot wrong decisions waiting to be born as they slipped off your tongue and swam to your lips without a second thought, and gave birth to

“ Opps I didn’t mean that”

“Opps I. Couldn’t have meant that”

“Opps if only I’d held onto the reigns just a little bit tighter. Maybe your feelings wouldn’t have gotten hurt by the percolating thoughts that pulsated through every inch of my………Cerebrum.

And maybe I could’ve won the war raging on between us. But even with my best of weapons out on display.. This treacherous tug of war took a toll on my

Army of ambition ……See we were no match for your power of persuasion

So I acquiesced

And Gave into your desires

delta with all your burning fires

Wined and dined your thoughts

Played your lies. Louder than cords at Carnegie Hall

Every mistake I wore… like a medal

And considering our collection some outta think we were Olympians or something

Not even Magic Johnson or Cicely Tyson held as many records as we did

You had me

Rapping like Common at a Christian concert

You constantly out did yourself

Subconsciously you were turning me inside out

And inside All you wanted to be was out

Even at the cost of selling out

And yet out, I was.

Needing to crawl back in

Pleading to find some shred of me

But you allowed musical lies to harmonize with the devil inside.

Enslaving my morals …You Stripped me of every pearl and again looked me in the face with a smile with a smile as good as grace and said I love you

And I will always fix my mouth to say it back

“I..Love..You”….. And I.... would always say it back

And then again, how can I not love you?

My conqueror you know people find us an awkward pair

Not the kind of relationship you publicize or share, our romance if we dare is pure havoc

So I’m learning how not to love you anymore. But it’s hard not looking you in the face

Every ....single.... day

With all these mirrors

All over the place.