When You’ve Learned to Love the Pain

When life's been full of hurtful people......

When pain is recurring, or prolonged.....

You fall for people

With jumbled minds

Just like yours,

Unsure....is this love? Or pain?

Broken people can't tell the difference.

--Can't have one without the other

--Crave the pain as much as love

And so you strike with words

& sometimes with fists

& it hurts & it traumatizes

And from that trauma

The strongest bonds develop

Wounds masquerading as True Love

Bonds disguised as Destiny

The truth is you're both fucked

Using Love & Pain

Taking Addiction &Trauma -

fusing your kerosene lips

with his fiery fingertips

Impatiently waiting

to Explode