My damaged heart watches from behind the cages of the façade that I have built to keep it inside and unseen

So it looks through the windows of NaCl aqueous and sees the world broken

And masking tape to keep the cracks closed as my soul bleeds out

Between my fingers in silver threads to be ground into the dirt

As I evaporate from the inside out and leave the shell of nothing important

The less supple is my flesh with the lack of soul and brittle hard unfeeling

While apathy reigns in hand with lackluster movements

Just going through the motions, so popular now

To laugh without mirth and smile without truth and wish only for eternal rest

Away from all that means nothing

Because all the feelings have not leaked out but have been repressed and stuffed in deep beside the heart

That bleeds and cries and rages to be heard

The harder you pack the greater the pressure

So pressure builds and builds and everything else is empty

Until the last straw has the camel’s back broke

And so breaks the heart, or the mind

And reality shatters with the great explosion of great emotion

Sharp and shards, carbon to diamond

Crystalline tears.

A/N: It would seem that my current mental state that has potentially GAD makes for a good deal of emo poems. A lot more than I've ever written. There's not much to comment on...just tell me if it's too tacky. I know emo's a dime a dozen, not even.