Love Is the Cage You Choose

I was sworn to the light. I didn't know

it was hollow. Come closer, don't be afraid. I never asked you to kneel.

You followed the pull in your chest. I only showed you what's real.

They warned you my name was a curse, that loving me ends in flames.

But look at your hands, still reaching. You were never the same.

I felt you before I fell like heat beneath my skin.

Every truth I tried to hold slipped when you pulled me in.

I told myself this was fate, not hunger dressed as need. But every step