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Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
Wrong choice
They breathed down my neck
And I felt like I was suffocating
Under the pressure
Of a thousand whispers
Shouted from a distance
Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
You once asked me to dance
And it sent me
Spiraling
Whirling
Twisting
Wreathing
And eventually falling
Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
You started out
As gold
Too beautiful to own
And too golden to stay
That's why
I wanted you anyway
Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
When I asked you
"Are you okay?"
You said nothing
But two seconds of your silence
Spoke two-thousand words
You simply could not say
Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
All it took was one crack
On an already fragile glass
To send me shattering
Into a million tiny pieces
Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
You and I
Had everything except
Practicality
Sensibility
Money
And all the things that
Seek to make order
But it only drove us mad
love falling madly hope
Kirsten Claire Feb 2018
We walked on a tight rope
Balancing
But also dancing
A ferocious dance
That was bound to result
In one of us falling
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