full stop, false start.
you're fooling everyone except
the one who [should] matter.

let's read shakespeare.
hand me othello's tale of woe.
watch me stop halfway through,
fiction all too real.

pause.
exhale.

i told you i was glass,
fingernails like windows
into my bloodstream,
but you cracked me anyways.

and it's like you took from me
these endless skies
and pretended the stars
had always been black.

it's like you dropped on me
the atomic ******* bomb
then pretended your fallout
was nothing but smoke.