Silence outside
Chaos within
Crisis of self
Emotional intelligence mute.

Ghosts walk by without word
Loneliness engulfs
Breaking my own heart
On my own.

She breaks too
Selfishly lick my own wounds
I don't want to die
But feel I may soon.

Hallway smiles
Deep issues denied
We fall silent, waiting for the other
To be recognised.

I walk out to the desert
To recollect and exhale
As this pain I contain
Should not be shared.

When I break, she breaks
As I am all she has
And she is all I need
Yet, I continue to bleed.

I have done nothing
And I'm all out of ideas
So I mask my pains with quick jokes
And a hundred beers.

Dying on the inside
With no way to explain
With no way to obtain
The happiness I once had.

Trying to learn in the moment
When I have already broken
I see her in pieces
But nothing is spoken.