• There, I heard it again
    Those three words
    That get passed around
    Like a note in class

    “I love you”
    But those words
    They rest on my lips
    Like a poison
    Burning away at the skin

    I could say those words
    But does that reflect
    The mirror of my heart

    Do I feel love?
    Can I offer love?
    What really is this emotion?

    It all seems so fake
    So void of truth
    Like an illusion
    A deadly elixir
    Offered to deny truth
    And substitute it with lies

    I fear those words
    Those three simple words
    For it will burn away at my lips

    But wouldn’t that be better?
    So I could never attempt
    To say such foolish things
    Ever again