When you are in love
You live in a world
Built out of glass walls
you imagine are bullet,
shatter proof with the thickest
of glass.
Until it cracks
A centimeter in length
Tension building with fear
Of broken shards.
Ignoring only makes
The crack grow longer
Splintering off in all directions.
So you fight the pain
You refuse to give up
And try to mend the cracks
With a resin of false smiles,
And shallow lies.
But the resin only holds
So long
And the crack spreads its legs
Like a venomous tarantula
Poisoning what took so long to build.
Until the day comes
You hold the sharp pieces
In your bloody hands
Oblivious
to the ache in your palms
desperately trying,
still trying,
to put the pieces back
together again.
