“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”
— E.E. Cummings

With each step I draw you in,
Everything about me tempts you,
Closer I whisper, I beckon, I demand.
With each drag I grow bolder.
I am your friend,
I am the frenemy lurking in the shadows, waiting for your downfall
I silence the voices telling you to quit me.
I thrive on your dependency,
Don’t you see you will never be rid of me
I am here. I am everywhere.
Every place you’ve been I have waited.
Every hope and dream you’ve had I have crushed.
I am not one vice but thousands.
I give you some slack only to pull you back in, deeper each time
I wreck havoc on your system.
I am the dream you can’t wake up from,
I am not one poison but thousands and
quietly I whisper to you, I am addition.