Shattered dreams lay strewn across,
My feet leaving bloody kisses in farewell.
The window is a splintered mosaic,
Within and without, everything’s broken.
One hesitant finger kills a glassy tile.
Breaking glass breaks my ears.
Moonlight embraces me within
Her folds of cold, lifeless nights.
I can’t see –
Brine drowns my eyes.
Who – who is that?
You sound like Fear,
Sniffing out his prey.
Teach me how to breathe.
I have tears in my lungs.
Air eludes my desperate gasps.
While they smother me with a pillow.
Shush, they tell me –
They place my fist in my mouth.
I suffocate.
But no one will hear you, they say.
I choke.
Don’t die, they tell me.
The morrow won’t part us yet.
Teach me how to breathe.
