We're all nervous
We're all scared
We don't move our limbs
Like ribcage tabletops, hearts like coasters
We cry
Varnish tears
And prop
Fists
On our brazen wood.

We're all anxious
We all need breath
To twist our tongues to words
And our lips to a grimace
Fooling no one,
But the ones who don't care.

And we all shine
Like carbon diamonds
Under the pack of a thousand years of dirt
We're not normal
But,
We,
We so are.

We are so alone,
Together.