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It’s a complicated life…
A complex web of white lies…
And multicoloured masks…
Used in her disguise…

Looking for something,
not sure what…
Always wanting more,
never happy with what she’s got….

Turning in vicious circles…
Surrounded by such dysfunction…
With a head that wasn’t straight…
And a heart that had malfunctioned…

Left high in the stratosphere…
All her promises disregarded…
Flying away in another world…
As she chose to finish what she started…

Waved the wand to ignite…
Knowing as she wove the spell…
It would drive him crazy…
And place him in a doomed cell…

No way through a locked door…
To find a dreamscape romance…
The key was broken from the start…
They never really stood a chance...

Holding on to every falling star…
And burning from the sun’s full rays…
As only at night could they dance…
Feeling their longing in the day…

She knew he would catch it,
and alight his soul…
Setting him down a path,
of desires and lost control…

Listening to each others words…
Together in dreams of passion…
Encouragement that what they felt…
Would never go out of fashion...

Falling head over heels for her charms…
With all her dark magic...
She captured his tormented soul…
That had effects so tragic...

She couldn’t hold back from the invisible pull,
quietly crafted from within…
The chain tightened around flesh and blood,
it infused and infected him…

Gathering strength from each other…
Because reality bites and pales...
They fought desperately for a life…
That would never grow stale…

They try and they falter…
Until he finds there is no comparison…
Yet all along no future can be held…
She now knows this more than anyone…

It’s a deadly life…
A lonely one too…
Black and White it’s not…
The only conclusion they drew…

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Version 1 of a co-write between myself and my brilliant guest poet Cate…