a hangman's noose for the willing

a woman can chain
your heart so
good and
hang you with the
same rope,
all in one,
until you've realized you
gave her the rope
to do the
job
all along.

lately,
I see
them falling into
this hole and
so desperately
wrap the noose
around their necks
until it
snaps.
but by then it's
too late
to have figured
it all out.
they are blind
to their mistakes
when they had the sack
around their
heads before it
ever happened.

they're
just another pile of
bones
with the rest of
those god-awful souls
wondering where the hell
they went wrong