Darling, You’re Dying is a slow burning metaphor that compares toxic love to a cigarette, addictive, alluring, and ultimately lethal. With lyrical edge and biting clarity, this poem explores the tension between pleasure and self-preservation, desire and destruction. It’s a warning dressed as a love note, a reckoning wrapped in smoke.
For those who’ve ever held on to what harms them just because it felt good for a moment. Darling, You’re Dying lights the match and walks away.