Poems

I am, you are

Black pools of mercury

Bleed across the sky

And set the moon on fire

They make me believe that I could touch that moon

That I could get lost in that darkness

And escape

But then

I look down

And really

I can't

I'm stuck here

Running with nowhere to go

Hopeless

I look away

I take another shaking breath

And try to forget

I try to erase

The words that just keep coming

Spoken from smirking lips

Lips that lie

You don't repeat them

You would never repeat them

And you don't need to

Because that's how you are

Black pools of mercury

Can't save me now

From the words that just keep coming

They bleed across this room

And set me on fire

Because you like to see me struggle

And that smirk becomes a grin

As you laugh at my fumbling fingers

I stop and stutter

Unsure of what to say

What can I say

You said it all

Because that's how I am

And you just keep on laughing