I once was a woman,
figured out
Attentively placed each brick where I thought he wanted it
All in
Spent my days inside the white picket fence
Certainty in my place
Building reality on a dream
A smile on my face hiding the tears of my soul
Filling the holes in my heart with things
Perpetual busyness so I didn’t have to see
the signs
Turned off the knowing
Drowned her voice in a sea of whiskey and wine
You can’t mute me forever, she whispered
One way or another
I will be heard
I ignored the warnings
and was gifted annihilation
Witness to the bombs dropping
on this so-called perfect life
Left standing
Alone
Paralyzed, but still breathing
I am not who I was
All that once defined me, gone
On the edge of what could be
I am left with only me
And she is all I will ever need
