Can you breathe yet?
Swallowing shards of glass like they will give you clarity
Or closure
a screen door that slams on their way out of your heart

Here it is
Splayed out between your fingers
Nails filled with packed earth
Stained lime green and screaming
From the graveyard that is your home
This is who you are

But can you breathe yet?
Watching as the bars of your gilded cage
Melt together in the burning heat
And inside you a skeleton dances
In the same ocean that will drown your heart

The end of watch is nigh and you have nothing to show
For the quest to find yourself
The one that pulled the world apart
But you
And all the scars that entails

So can you breathe yet?
You have made it to journey’s end and still your lungs can’t accept the air
So sure that there was to be something more
Another monster to run from
or a *** of gold
Or a princess in a tower

I have been the monster and the princess and the grass stained hand
I have found that all those rainbows and all the thorns
I spent years trying to unwind
Always end in my own arms
And it is you who will hold yourself in your own muddied hands
And allow your lungs to breathe again.