my words
are my voice
so when you scrunch them up
in your unforgiving fists
you may as well
be slapping me
right across the face

you send your impostor jellyfish
out into the great abyss
a storm cloud in a sky of shifting blue
seemingly innocent from where you stand
but really
you have repaid a gift with a curse
and your curse is mistaken for a gift
because what else would one repay a gift with
than another in return?

when you breathed
i breathed
because the most intimate
i could be with you
was when our breaths caressed
each other.

you are fed
so many lies
that eventually
it's not your fault
when they come
flowing out of you

draw me a house
of lies
lies
lies
and then tell me it's me
who is blind
blind
blind

the problem is that
you are now in pieces
you
are
vulnerable
making it easier
for the wrong things
to build
and build
and build
you up again

You clench
Your fingers
Around my heart
And are surprised
When you find them
Covered
In blood