Horror poem: It's REAL love

Content warnings: dark themes, psychological entrapment

They tell me that I should be glad, because he’s just no good,

But why can’t they see, he’s a saint, but misunderstood?

They look at him and call him a monster,

Why?

Because he stole me away? Because he’s called an “abductor”?

so what? Can’t anybody see I’ve learned to want it this way?

He didn’t hurt me, well I mean he did—

But that was to make me

grow

A little fear and a little pain made me better you know

And more importantly he fed me, and clothed me, and gave me a home

He took good care of me, he never left me alone

He stuck by me,

Always loyal

Always there

Even in those early days when I felt

I was caught in a snare

I remember it clear as ice and I’m full of shame:

How he would bring me food and I’d refuse

he’d play me music and I’d scream

I remember I even tried to escape

That was stupid

I just couldn’t see that all this trouble,

he was doing it for me!

I should have trusted and listened, but I was blind as could be

And it took him a long time to prove that he really knew and meant best

But now the public is against him,

It weighs on my chest

they say he’s a predator

They say I should be happy,

now that I’m “free”

But this is a nightmare, not a happy dream

the man who’s cared for me all these years, he’s going to jail and that’s

not at all fair

He wasn’t perfect not at first.

It wasn’t love at first sight…

But the years and the tears have proved

he always acted right

If only I’d the clarity back then,

To see him in such an honest light

He could have

No

He should have been my savior from day one!

Maybe then the nastier things he wouldn’t had to have done

If I could go back now I’d fall in love from the start

but here I am now with a torn up heart

I feel so confused and sorry and unclean

Because they’re using me against him, for their legal proceedings

I didn’t want to hurt him,

But I said to much

I didn’t know I should have just kept my mouth shut

The lawyers and the judge and the public

They’re are all evil fools

They talk about a thing called Stockholm syndrome…

But we were happy,

why couldn’t they just leave us alone?