Catalyst
you’re the monster
and I’m your friend
We live fast to die young,
will I have to see you again?
you stick pins and needles into
my body as if I am your voodoo doll
pour me up a fifth of gasoline while
I mistake it as being alcohol
you love to tamper things for me
while you say you’re my protector
I’m the only grasshopper left and I’ve
been warned that you’re a bug collector
shadowed in a canopy of black curtains,
sheering out the darkness of your burdens
there's a sense of elegance to your facade,
with a bed of satin and a piano of ivory white
I shouldn't have sipped
your bottle of red wine,
you fed me a match for dinner
and watched me ignite
I'm letting myself digress,
you sparked my flame like a catalyst
but this violent delight has
even more brutal of an end,
I don't know how to keep loving you,
and I've lost my willpower to pretend
- Leah Rae