glass heart

I walk on silence,

Like it’s safer than the sound.

Everyone’s a liar

But I still keep them around.

There’s poison in the petals

Of the roses that they bring,

But I hold them to my chest

Like they mean everything.

You say I’m fragile,

I say I’m numb.

I built my heaven

From coming undone.

I’ve got a glass heart,

Cracks where you used to be.

You said you’d fix me,

But you just watched me bleed.

I try to sleep through

The storms inside my head—

But the monsters only whisper

All the words you never said.

Smiles in the mirror,

But none of them are real.

Hollow like the echo

Of the love I used to feel.

You touched me like a ghost,

Cold hands, warm lies,

Now I cry in lowercase

So nobody replies.

You say I’m fading,

I say I’m fine.

But I’m just tracing

Your name in my mind.

I’ve got a glass heart,

Cracks where you used to be.

You said you’d fix me,

But you just watched me bleed.

I try to sleep through

The storms inside my head—

But the monsters only whisper

All the words you never said.

If breaking me was easy,

Why’d you take your time?

Was I just a canvas

For your twisted kind of crime?

I’ve got a glass heart,

Shattered but still beating slow.

And every sharp piece

Reminds me I let you go.

Now I’m dancing

With the shadows in my bed—

While the monsters keep on whispering

All the words you never said.