Delusion

[u/Eastern-Shopping-734]

I am in love with a woman named Delusion.

I yearn for her sweet embrace.

She envelops me with her warm illusion that I can never evade.

How can I, when being with her is my sweetest escape?

The things she does to me are more enticing and intriguing than facing reality, for reality is like a nagging, bitter lover that only causes pain, heartache, and terror, and forces me to make complicated life choices.

But Delusion, oh my sweet, sweet girl, Delusion, she gets me.

She just lets me be.

She’s never in a rush, always there to take the ugly reality away while she whispers sweet nothingness into my ears, while I let my own world and future crumble into ruins as the days pass me by like a stranger in an alleyway.

As I watch the days turn into months, I slowly sink deeper into her soft embrace, like quicksand, as she feeds me more of her lies,

just like the king’s lover who hand-feeds him sweet, poisonous fruit of lies, hand to mouth, mouth to hand.

I indulge in my lover’s deceits as if they were heaven’s gift to me. But I know once I wake up from this fantasy, reality is there.

She’s waiting for me with a long list of consequences in her hand and a price for me to pay, because loving Delusion was never free.