Love Poem: Arsonist
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Written by: Jessica Vh

Arsonist

Please leave
Before I come back for what was mine,
The remorse I faked to buy us time,
The hate you await to make it right.

I made my way out 
Of the house I burned down.
Nothing is left for me now;
No one else had heard the sound.

I waited inside the refuge I found,
And burned myself to the ground.

And now I don’t know who I am;
When she saw what I was, she ran.

Chaos catches my eye;
It makes a poet out of me and my life.

No one touches the more wounded side.   

The sabotage was mine;
I set it off to feel it ignite,
And sat inside alone and cried.

You can’t close the wound with a knife;
You can’t make love to her with spite;
You can’t have her now when she was mine.

The apology depreciates in time.

More wrongs made it right;
I tried to burn it down that night.