Ashes In My Mouth

Teeth on edge

Bite down

Taste rust

All my calm

Powdered into dust

Walls close in

Paint cracks like a scab

I keep scratching

Just to feel it grab

Hate in my hands

It burns

Despair in my lungs

It churns

Fear in the dark of my chest

Lonely in a room full of flesh

Anger like a storm in my veins

Wrath carving roads through my shame

Clock on the wall

Drips instead of ticks

Every single second

Another little twist

Names on my phone

I let them all ring

Silence is a chain

I wear like a ring

I ask the ceiling

"Do you see me?"

It just stares back

Cracked and empty

I choke on words that never left

Swallow every shout

Every threat