i should have realized a lot of things.

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i really hadn't a care
about who he was

who he called himself,
or,
what others called him,

all that mattered to me,
at the time
was that i was alive and in love,
and he claimed to love
me back.

i should have noticed
that something was wrong
about him.

how he said
all that he needed to and not a word more,

how he never said anything
out of place
and kept knowing
what i was thinking.

i should have realized
that he was using me.

but then,
i guess that if i did,
i wouldn't be lying here now
in a puddle of my own scarlet blood.

he always did say
i looked good in red.

if only i realized sooner
that he wasn't my love, and instead
that he was my enemy.

after all
there is no greater enemy to life
than death himself.





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