she remembered the moment

she was taken by darkness

she deserted polite society

willingly drifted into things

she shouldn’t do.

darkness covered her

like a seductive net, tingling.

convinced her to take the first drag,

kiss the one she shouldn’t

and through it all

she knew it was bad things,

the wrong path she walked anyway.

she crawled into it like a webby cave

she felt it sting her with its venom

and drain the future from her veins