If you’ve ever held any emptiness inside of you, if there’s ever been an ounce of pain-hide it.
Because no one wants to see that.
But dear why do you want to make them so uncomfortable?
Keep quiet. That’s depressing. Did you see what *insert celebrity* did?
*Gasp*
If you’ve ever held any emptiness inside of you, if there’s ever been an ounce of pain-hide it.
Because the man who asks: what’s that? It’s beautiful. Can I hold her for a while?
He will build a cage with it and convince you it’s a castle
You are my princess he will grin
as he locks the steel door.
If you’ve ever held any emptiness inside of you, if there’s ever been an ounce of pain-hide it
Because no one is truly willing or can even help you find the key
You weak idiot they say
How could you let him put you in there?
If you’ve ever held any emptiness inside of you, if there’s ever been an ounce of pain within you-well maybe…
Maybe you should show it
Because while you rock yourself inside this cage
Back sore with only nibbles of sustenance
eventually….
the words “I love you” will appear
…and you will hold tightly onto them and they will form a key and you will escape and this cage-it will collapse into your arms like a child passed out after a long day, snoring lightly with its heart beat loud and its body warm and rising and you will say
I love you
This is why the next time a charming stranger walks up to you
wide grin and hands too ready for cage-making saying
She’s so beautiful, can I hold her?
You will laugh
You will laugh so loudly that the grin is wiped from his face
and his too-ready hands fall off with a thud
And you will say
Not without love
Not without love
Not. without. love.
