for better, for worse

Fate drags me to you,
iron shackles biting bone.
I would slit myself open,
spill red down your throat,
if it kept you near.

You speak in anger,
I listen in silence.
You spit bitter truths,
I swallow them whole.
You lash out.
I take it.
You curse me.
I bless it.

I’d crawl through glass,
let my body be eaten hollow,
if only it pleased you.

But youβ€”
you would never do the same.
We both know that.

Even still, I can not let go.
For I believeβ€”
perhaps foolishly,
that destiny itself has braided us together,
that even cruelty is a kind of tether.

I call it fate,
this ruin,
this binding of red thread and coincidences.


For better,
For worse,
I am yours, eternally.


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Pretty words for ugly things.