Strength steals from me like blood pooling around our feet
Muscle fibers losing the ability to hold it together
You take a shower alone
My reflection shatters like glass
Something stirs where I thought only dead things lived
A voice silenced years ago
Some black necrotic mass
Peeking out from the depths
Reaching up into the present
To suffocate the child that once lived here
A hand over her mouth
Telling her to be quiet
To lie still and be good
That it’s going to be okay
It will all be over soon
And even as your hand strokes mine, begging it to open up,
I know it won’t
If you can see the darkness swirling behind my eyes, you don’t say so
You just hold me, stroke my cheek and give me a child’s rapper name
Before you go to the gym
Rainbows trailing behind you in your wake
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