you tricked me into drinking love potion
so I would never leave you
not trusting
that I would stay
of my own free will
*
I loved you, but left you
so you could never hurt me
not trusting
that the next potion you’d slip into my wine
wouldn’t be poisonous…
love potions, too
taste bittershadows of white lies, too
are dark
Johanna Benevole 