I am lost in a labyrinth of my own emotion.
Only I hold the key to solving the maze
But I seemed to have dropped it in my rush
To follow you down the rabbit hole,
Hoping love was the light at the end of the tunnel.

i couldnt breathe- the anger was burning the insides of my nostrils-
--so i slit my throat trying to open up a new airway-
all that spewed out was a lover's name//
                                              the one who has chained a piece of my heart to his thigh
                                                                                                             emptied it
and uses it as a place to store his change/


my ears still ring with the sound of my heart strings hitting the nickels and dimes.

Expand, retract, expand, retract, expand,
                                                               expand,
                                                                        expand

Using my ribcage as a loom, he wove his gilded lies through-/
I watched him make a tapestry of my heart,,
I fell for the picture he was creating,,
And while he was tightening his weaving,
I became aware I had no room left to breathe...
The only person who could cut the string was he
So there I was- a dead masterpiece.

Expand, retract, expand, retract,
                                    retract,
                               retract


-c.j.