Poison roses

I saw you laughing in her velvet dress,

Your hand in hers like it once held me best.

The champagne burned where my lips used to be,

And I tasted the ghost of our memory.

I told myself I’d be fine,

But your shadow’s carved into mine.

Every smile she gives, every glance,

It pulls me into a jealous trance.

I’m drowning in poison roses,

Thorns where my heart used to be.

I loved you like a secret ocean,

And now you’re lost to her, not me.

Every laugh, every whisper, every sigh,

I watch the fire and wonder why.

I wear your letters like a faded crown,

Replay your words when the lights go down.

She doesn’t know the storms I’ve tamed,

The nights I cried your name in vain.

I’m jealous of every fleeting touch,

Of hands that know you just as much.

You were mine — or so I swore,

Now I’m a ghost outside your door.

I’m drowning in poison roses,

Thorns where my heart used to be.

I loved you like a secret ocean,

And now you’re lost to her, not me.

Every laugh, every whisper, every sigh,

I watch the fire and wonder why.

I’m a mirror cracked by envy’s kiss,

A lost hymn of our broken bliss.

If love is cruel, I’ve loved it more,

And now I bleed along the shore.

So keep your roses, keep your lies,

I’ll bury my heart under stormy skies.

Jealousy blooms, but I’ll survive,

A poisoned queen still alive.