Insidious Love

By ‘Ladeji Popoola

For so many days,
you fall for the love you sight in its eyes.

On its face, signs are written
that you alone are reading
to strengthen this love you
clamp to your heart.

I know you are falling
for its honey-coated words too.
Those words, it chooses to pluck your strings
and yes, you are manacled
by its intoxicating notes of insidious love.

I know you are madly in love,
with its weird, flawless perfection too,
But slowly, this love weakens,
Gently, it kills your heart.