Should Have Known Better

Should Have Known Better

I should have known better than to trust the light,

It flickered too soft, too perfect, too bright.

A lure in the dark, a whispering tide,

Pulling me under with nowhere to hide.

I should have seen through the venom-laced grin,

The promises wrapped in shimmering sin.

Each word a dagger, each touch a chain,

Binding my soul to exquisite pain.

I should have turned when the shadows grew,

When silence screamed what I already knew.

But I stayed, I begged, I bled, I burned,

A fool in the fire, too late to learn.

Now the echoes laugh where my warnings fell,

And I walk alone through this private hell.

I should have known better, I should have fled,

But love is a ghost, and so are the dead.