fall in love with a narcissist

To fall in love with a narcissist

Is to love someone

Who doesn't exist.

It’s a forest fire in the distance

That you mistook for a sunrise.

It is the painting you admire

But never dries.

It's reciting the script

They gave you,

And you apologise

For lines you never drafted.

It's constructing the altar

With the tools

They supplied you.

While they chisel away at you

Bit by bit;

Until there's nothing left

But the hollow fantasies

You hoped come true.

To realise

You were the only thing in the room

That was ever real.