Wednesday, May 6, 2020

The Door

5/6/2020


I grew tired of keeping it open all the time.
The draft from his ghost was nearly unbearable.
Although it seemed but a breeze to some,
it had a tendency to bring me to my knees
every single time it wisped past my memory.

My hands grew calloused with splinters from the wood of his disdain.
My feet became bloodied with blisters from being the wedge between his abandonments.
My reactions intensified with immediate palpitations from the daggers in his mendacious eyes.
My core is becoming weaker by the minute trying to keep you from opening this creaky door.

With all of my might, I hold myself against it,
sweat pouring from my skin.
My battle going unnoticed,
with the wood stains beginning to camouflage my despondency.
I am slowly losing this fight,
while you maniacally knock at a tune too catchy to ignore.

I just can’t.
I can’t open myself up to you,
because I know the second that I do,
your curious knocking will instantaneously stop in absolute disgust
as I reveal the woman I really am just waiting
behind the door.

No comments: