you tried to save me
by pretending that everything was all right
*
I heard the crevices crack in your heart
*
observed the smiles distorted by avalanches of swallowed suffering
*
you held me in love
but I could feel the tension in your body
*
how you scratched and peeled off your own skin
because you were too afraid
too deeply fragile
to avenge yourself
*
and women attacked themselves
to do s o m e t h i n g
Croque-Melpomene 