Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

by Megan Fox

i used to believe love was a poem now i know love is a killing spree

how many times have you watched me die and still you don’t realize that you are the reaper

you’re imprisoned by all of the demons you’ve bartered with renting space in your body to them in exchange for a life that doesn’t even make you happy why do you sacrifice me to feed the things that haunt you

i forgot that i had a voice long before you decided to become my ventriloquist

i am realizing that this fairy tale will not have a happily ever after instead it will end prematurely with one of us reading a eulogy • funerals are for lovers

i will always be in love with the man that you’ll never become

i didn’t realize how much of myself i was giving away or how much of me was disappearing until i turned on a light and couldn’t even find my shadow • but maybe if we use a black light we could still find all the stains you left on me