My Poison Habit

You smile like a sliver of glass

Your phone lights up,

I let it pass

But I know your lies by ringtone

Still I wait by the speakerphone

You whisper “baby”

like a spell

It burns and soothes,

I wear it well

You swear it’s nothing—I nod,

obey

Like moth to flame,

I love decay

You’re the tremble in my wrist The click before the twist I

know you’re fiction on rewind But god,

your chaos calms my mind

You’re my poison habit,

darling

I sip, I shake,

I smile

I read your texts like scripture And bleed in perfect style

You kiss me like a promise

Then vanish like a crime But I crave your curse each morning

Like coffee... or a line I see the lashes on your back

Invisible but vivid black

You leave your sins out like cologne

I breathe them in—I make them home

You never flinch when you lie But flinch when I say “I’m

fine” You hold my face like a chandelier And shatter me in

time You’re my poison habit,

baby I ache and orbit tight Each lie’s a pulse I dance

to

Each truth just kills the light

You haunt me in the shower steam You bloom inside the fight

And I need your name in venom To feel anything tonight

(You’re bad for me...) (But so am I...) Poison habit...

Poison habit...