At 2 am, she whispered
all about the things that scared her
confessions of dark secrets
and concealed vulnerabilities
an answer of ‘I got you, baby' broke the silence
an illusion taking place
a bubble of false promises

Funny how we spend years of building up walls,
only for the wrong people to crawl over it,
and we bare ourselves, finally
only to put more layers when left behind

The walls built,
the cage her heart was put in,
broken just enough to be put back in
higher
stronger

So at 2 am, she whispered
'never again shall I let anyone in'
Sad, don't you think?
How we come to destroy things we have no intention to keep