empty and glass
cold and fragile
it doesn't beat like it should
but sometimes it catches the light nicely
as long as it's beautiful
never mind that it doesn't work
hook me up to a monitor
and you'll hear nothing
but press your ear to my chest
and you might just hear the ocean

You always come back into my life
When I'm the most ready to shut you out.

In a melatonin haze
Aided by half a bottle of champagne
I saw something
I never wanted to see
But now it seems
My strings have been cut
-It hurt-
-At first-
But I guess it had to be
For me to really be free

Maybe I can finally say
I'm over it

My invisibility
Seems to be conditional
But I don't set the terms

The freckles across your pale skin
Are like a negative image
Of constellations in the night sky

I never thought about
Becoming an astronaut
Until I met you

I'm picking the skin
Off my fingertips
And pretending
That my heart doesn't ache
And when the sun rises
I'll open my eyes
And take a breath
That I don't want to take
I've made some mistakes
And maybe the worst
Was believing
There's such a thing as fate
Because maybe I stopped trying
And maybe that's
When I started dying
We have to fight for our dreams
But to me it seems
That maybe I spend too much time
Hiding
Too much time
Crying
Too much time
Buying
Into the idea
That you can coexist with fear
Because if I stay here
I swear there will be no point
In living
This fight is imminent
I'm shedding my ignorance
Because it's what I need to survive
It's do or die