Lovingly, I hate you.

In shame I do admire.

 Soothingly, I scorch you

 With the touch of icy fire.

Emptily, you filled me up.

Unknowing, pushed me down.

There’s no opposite of nothing

That heats a frozen frown.

What course was there left open

But to treat you as a friend?

You ripped my heart from bloody chest

Just to forget it in the end.

So what, if it’s a pretense?

At least I know the truth.

I’m not the one playing dentist

Who’s never seen a tooth.

Ignorantly, you hold all knowledge.

Apathetic, you show all care.

Paradoxically, you know the answer

But you’ll kill before you’ll share.

What is the piece of cleverness

That I never thought to take?

Was this all just a game to you,

Aiming my heart to break?

Was I not supposed to listen

When you said you want me still?

Was I to lock my doors

And bar my window sill?

 I wasn’t to forget you.

Though truly, I did try.

You just had to have my “hello”.

So you could force your own goodbye.

Cunningly, I sprung the trap.

Freely, I felt the chains.

But you were still better company

Than the heart’s lonesome pains.

 Frigid is your warmly face.

Lithe, your clumsy stance.

I cannot know what you expect

When you haven’t any plans.

Tranquil, I am flustered.

In knowing I am perplexed.

Solution leads to more mistake.

Simplicity makes you complex.

What signals did I intercept?

What messages should I not have heard?

Whose heart did you mean to steal?

Who’s awaiting your final word?

 I know I should despise you,

But infatuation has me caught.

You cannot set your ship to sea

With sails in affection’s knot.

 Hauntingly, I miss you.

Bewildered, I know why.

Without your puzzle to transcend me,

In life, I only die.