Stockholm Syndrome

I will stay with you

Because leaving you feels like failure

Like loss of a love I am yet to know

A love I’ve been longing for

Your sweet nothings 

Are proof enough

They make me forget the times you violate me

Or how you manipulate me

You hurt me

…But this is not abuse…

Relationships are difficult 

Highs and lows are inevitable

Pleasure and pain go together 

And contrary to what they say 

You’re not neglecting me 

I need to give it time 

To give you time 

Away from me 

So you can refill your cup and love me 

You do love me

And you need me

And you know how I can be sometimes

I’m stubborn and I also have a temper

Besides, the make up sex is great

And the highs are electric 

Fire! Like The-Dream’s Falsetto 

Ecstasy! A premonition of what could be

A beautiful fantasy!

So I will stay with you

Clinging to you 

To the hope and promises of change 

And the delusion that this bondage 

I mean that this bond… is true

• Sarah Kenyi © 2025