Snakes and Ladders

The cycle keeps going on

And for once I wish it would stop for me to catch onto it

What I don’t understand is how it’s a cycle;

It’s more like snakes and ladders 

Where you go up and up and up 

And then fall down so unexpectedly.

You love and love and love

And then hurt for so long

It feels like eternity 

Then you start to heal but never completely 

Because you fall in love again

Still bruised

And the dried blood you’d hoped to wash away

An armour you wanted to never need.

It’s a beautiful beginning,

The first look like the roll of a dice

A six and you open your heart

You sit back

You watch him take the dice from your hand

You never stop him

Because there’s a trust that he will lead you to the end

To victory where love awaits.

So you close your eyes

Losing controls of your life

To hands that will first transcend you to heaven

And then through hell;

Did you expect him to walk with you?

Learn from your mistakes,

Learn to keep your heart safe,

That stranger in the street,

The bachelor in the bar,

The man in the next seat,

The one standing behind you,

They can never care for a heart that’s not theirs,

For they didn’t put it back together when it first fell

They don’t know all the stitches it has

They haven’t tasted the poison it drank 

And they don’t have the love it asks.

This game has only one rule, darling-

Play at your own risk.