Why is it that when you come back into my life,
My heart feels ready to explode?
I loved you once; but not today,
Yet you continue to tempt me to the very edge.

You know every part of me, much more than him now;
It takes you but a few words to bring me back,
And you know too well how vulnerable I am to you.

I'm hurting; full of guilt and reminders,
And just when I seem to heal,
I come crawling back and you deliver me evil.

You were a part of my past, my dark past,
Yet you seem to follow me, like a reckless shadow.
But I guess you can never run from something so full of sin and lust.

I once would have given anything to stay with you forever,
I would have fallen to watch you fall,
I would have died to die with you...
But that was then; this is now.

tina anderson

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-was-then-this-is-now-4/