i fell in love slowly,
the way you wanted me to
and i didn't even consider
how it would end.
the sun shone brightly over us,
despair a distant thing.
you edged me towards the cliff
so slowly
that i didn't even realise
until i was there.
you pushed me off so i fell,
and fall i did
into the trenches of your love.
and i'd love were food,
i would have starved
on the scraps you gave me,
just another victim
of what your ribcage didn't protect.