I have the power to destroy a person's life.
What does that make me?

Please don't put me through this
Please don't look at me like you know

tired of people lying about me and to me
tired of talking and tired of keeping my mouth shut
doesn't seem to make much of a difference, anyway.

As you jump back from me disgustedly,
My words can only bring empty soliloquy,
Stapled jaw lines, & open mouths,
Mumbling I'm sorry, through cracked lips,
You wonder why I sleep with my bedroom door locked,
Don't cry over split blood on tile floors,
The clean up is easy.

we're all left to shiver in the bitter little aftershocks.