I laughed at the wreckage scattered across the floor, obscene, cruel, too absurd to ignore. You said, I can’t act like this anymore, but even in the phrasing I knew the voice was never yours. The cadence betrayed you, the rhythm faltered, and her echo crawled beneath your skin, A ghost wearing your mouth, a shadow stitching your words together with threads not your own. You slept inside my life and then you smiled, as though betrayal could pass as tenderness, a parody of love. Did you think I would stay, frozen, beguiled, pretending I couldn’t see the knife buried in my chest? Every phrase was a splinter of falsehood, a counterfeit pressed against me, a theft wearing devotion’s mask, a silence heavy enough to break a ribcage. And I wonder did you practice that smile? Did she help you sharpen the edges of your lies? I can’t unsee the hands you hid, already inked with her shadow when they reached for me. I can’t forgive what silence did, how it grew like walls between us while you let me starve. Brick by brick the trust collapsed, the foundation groaned, the ceiling cracked. And here I stand among the aftermath, stranded in the ruins’ ash you left smoldering behind. You edited stories until the seams tore open, shifting blame from corner to corner, painting yourself as the victim of circumstance, but I saw the brushstrokes dripping red. Two conspirators bound in secrecy, their shame twined together like rope. Would you think I’d ever hunger for that kiss? When every taste was poisoned, when every touch was stitched from betrayal’s cloth? I can’t unsee the hands you hid, already inked with her shadow when they reached for me. I can’t forgive what silence did, how it grew like walls between us while you let me starve. Brick by brick the trust collapsed, the foundation groaned, the ceiling cracked. And here I stand among the aftermath, stranded in the ruins’ ash you left smoldering behind. No disguises left. No borrowed names remain. Your empire of deceit is dust. A cathedral built on stolen breath, a monument already collapsing. I gave you fire to keep you warm, but you struck it back against me and called it war. And in that blaze, you burned the vow I swore, until there was nothing left just smoke in my lungs. Her voice inside your mouth. Her hands inside your lies. Her name hidden in your silence. Her shadow carved into mine. I can’t unsee the hands you hid, already inked with her shadow when they reached for me. I can’t forgive what silence did, how it strangled my voice while you carved your sin. Brick by brick the trust collapsed, and the walls came down with a violent crash. I am left to wander in the aftermath, stranded, broken, in the ruins’ ash. You and her, you thought I’d stay. But I am already gone, walking through the silence, fading further with every step … away, away, away. awaaaaaaaaay
