Dangerous Risk

Warning signals scream inside my ears
and I can no longer ignore their sirens.
They are there to remind me of consequences
for when I break his rules.
I hold my hands up and admit,
I opened my heart so I could love
and let my heart be loved.
I can hear his voice roaring and his
heavy footsteps thudding closer as
he chases me back to my cage.
His words were not empty threats,
they were promises that he would keep for eternity.

I broke the rules by giving away my heart
which I keep forgetting belongs to him
and always will.
He coated it with poisonous ink and dipped
it inside a basket of sharp rose-thorns,
just in case I ever tried to let anyone in.
Well I learned my lesson, I let love get in they way
of everything he taught me, and now I
will pay the price as I watch those who have
touched my heart, fall apart around me
with invisible thorns sticking into their skin.

One by one, he will take them away, make them disappear,
replay their exit before my eyes,
and engrave their headstone onto my soul.

This is the danger that I risk with every time
I open my heart and let someone feel my love,
forgetting that I belong to him.

Saffie
22

13/7/13