Bite down ******* my tongue, the hiss between channels— shards of unspoken words rattle in my jaw, half-born specters of what-could-be, swallowed before they can crawl into light.
You. You. Carving hieroglyphs in the meat of my chest— soft flame against black walls, smoke signals I can’t decipher. You unmake me with hands that don’t even know what they’re holding.
Silence is a weapon. Silence is a fistful of razors. Fear grows teeth in the shadows, glass splinters fracturing into weapons before the crack, before the shatter.
And I keep it locked—this thing, this ache, this soft, bleeding confession choking on its own edges behind my teeth. Because words are dangerous. Because you don’t know the shape of my ruin and I don’t want you to see the mess of it spilled between us.
So I swallow. Again and again. And hope one day you’ll read the maps I’ve etched into the silence of my breaking.