You Picked The Villain

You walked into my ruin like a sunrise in a graveyard

Laid your gentle fingers on the fault lines of my guard

You kissed the rusted edges, called this poison “holy wine”

Said, “I can handle damage, I just want what’s really mine” You lit a match inside a house already halfway burned

You called my jagged history a map you’d love to learn

You wrapped your pulse around my throat like it was nothing new

Said, “I know what I’m doing, no one made me choose but you”

You see the cracks, still tracing hearts in the seams

You picked the villain, don’t flinch when I confess

I’m the wolf you dressed in white and called “no less”

You’re the halo kneeling right beside my mess

Saving something that was born to burn the rest You picked the villain, I warned you with my eyes

I’m the sharpened edge beneath your lullabies

You’re the only heaven I have ever known

But I’m the fault line shaking up your throne

You patched my broken mirror, said the fractures looked like art

But every silver whisper still reflects a blackened heart

You lace your faith around my wrists like it can hold me still

Baby, I’m a landslide that remembers how to kill You say my name like scripture in a room that smells like smoke

Lay your chest against the chamber where the gun has never choked

You trace the scars and call them roads that led you to my door

But darling, there were warnings carved in every one before

You see the storm, still dancing bare in the rain

You say my violence is just unloved pain

You picked the villain, don’t flinch when I confess

I’m the wolf you dressed in white and called “no less”

You’re the halo kneeling right beside my mess

Saving something that was born to burn the rest You picked the villain, I warned you with my eyes

I’m the sharpened edge beneath your lullabies

You’re the only heaven I have ever known

But I’m the downfall built into your bones

You keep saying, “I can take it, I’ve survived worse storms than you”

But you don’t hear the choir of the ghosts behind my truth

Every promise that I broke is humming low beneath my tongue

Every “I’ll be better” is a noose I’ve always hung You lay your hope across my chest like armor made of light

But I’ve been known to bite the hands that hold me through the night

If you keep reaching for the fire just to prove that you don’t burn

Then don’t look shocked when every lesson has to hurt

(You picked the villain!)

I’m the nightmare in your open arms

(You picked the villain!)

Bleeding halos on your tender palms You said, “I want all of you”

Well this is all of me

Every razor in my ribcage

Every ghost you couldn’t see

You… picked… the… VILLAIN…

Now live with the mark

“You’re my salvation, I’m your slow collapse…..