• "Because I love you"
    That was your answer for everything
    Everything being the pain you caused me
    Like the Devil you taunted me
    Taunted with luscious sweetened apples
    Taunted with the idea of your love
    So I reached for it like a fool
    But no matter how hard I painfully stretched
    My nails would only just reach
    They tore and brutalized the reddened skin
    The mangled apple bled clear over my stretched fingers
    The skin stabbing and clinging under my weaponized nails
    The pain of the skin under my nails and the stretch of my fingers
    I would pull back and get just that taste of the sweetness mixed with my blood
    I washed away the apple blood and my own with my tears
    Yet now that I tore past that skin, that beautiful red skin
    I see the rotten core that lays beneath and offers nothing but bitter
    So now I no longer search for that false sweet
    As I look in this mirror I see the true love that you never provided me
    Myself