Permanent Blackener

Addiction, and another,
Extreme points of the line I walked.
I’ve been oscillating between these milestones
for as long as I can’t remember.

Then I pulled out, one day,
The day I stood in the center of these extreme dots,
And walked straight down
And became a spot myself.

And we continued to love each other.
But I was no more a slave,
I was the outsider from inside
who completed this love triangle.

It’s me in the corner,
And addiction and addiction
In the other two.
In between the three of us
Lies the void.

-Shaxeb S.