Virus

Don't know when we met I don't know when the virus came Suspect you've been there all along Lying in wait With no escape For me With company Your thoughts race endlessly And you're lost in space In the quiet comfort of your room The virus keeps you wide awake Turning tricks To get its fix It gets high on all you've hidden You wither and isolate Told to love you And embrace you as my own Virus as child or lover Least I'm never left alone You demand attention You will be known But I want to burn your body And I want to stem your plague Won't take half-measures with a virus I can never seem to shake And through force of will I'd put you on list of kills And finally breathing easy I would whistle As I watched you waste away But we both know that you'll survive No way to vaccinate or put out your lights Cause you'll wait me out You stare me down From some corner in my mind And you'll infect me to the bottom of my being The minute I avoid your eyes And will you be there virus On my dying day? Not having pulled the trigger But unrelenting All the same? And will you tell me? Will I know? Will I have peace Or will it always Always Be this way?