They’re ****** into your life for a reason She said You have to push them out She said You have to learn the lesson She said Control A powerful action exhibited by the smallest of people Childlike fingers crushing your esophagus as though their life depends on your suffering end Vomiting words onto your shoes in hopes that some of it made it to your ears Smothering you with everything you never said and everything you can never say No, you listen I’m talking Look at me he said But you can’t Because your eyes are glazed over and the bruises around your sockets are swelling and all you can make out are the shapes of terrors you can never wake up from But you have to learn the lesson She said