the pot.
and suddenly, the glass broke.
your tinted windows fell away
and I finally saw behind the veil.
your wall crumbled,
your shell cracked,
and I could see the skeletons in your closet.
what a sight beheld my eyes
ever in any question
would I have guessed.
not you,
whose shield was a smile
a smile that suffocated, drowned
slowly to a blackness unlikened.
those whispers in the night
crescendoing to screams of rage.
how dare you hope!
belief has no place in you.
oh yes, your shell has cracked.
and in seeped those screams.
dying slowly, breathing out
breathing in the death.
and yet,
a death was required.
suddenly, light.
a final throwdown.
a gauntlet, face down on the ground.
to struggle, to writhe about,
to wake up!
yes, your veil fell.
revealing vulnerability
beyond likening.
a desire
a longing
a glimmer, long since dimmed.
blow, you!
breathe out,
breathe in life.
and live.