Here I am

Lip singing your favorite song of destruction.

Mouthing the words we both fear to speak.

Screaming them at you using no sounds.

Silently practicing the word we rehearsed over and over until perfection

And now, knowing them by heart, I quit.

I grew up, you’re turn

Here I am

Burning down your precious walls

Seeing you, emotions and all.

Surprised you’re a real person.

Seeing you through the glass wall

Uncovering you from your crowd of familiar lies.

There you are

Moving out of the way

Allowing my heart to hit the cold ground

watching it shatter into a million

tiny shreads of broken love

scattering the pieces

Here I am

Scrambling, trying to pick up the pieces

Fingers bleeding,

you laugh

Here I am

Backing away

So long

Fare well