Everything You Touch

Everything you touch,

You break.

Like a kid in a porcelain shop.

Like someone out to ruin the world.

I’m still choking on tears you made me cry.

Choking on a certain sanity I had before you entered the picture.

I choke on dreams of happiness.

I choke on your tongue in my mouth.

Everything you touch breaks into pieces.

You expect me to glue it back together like nothing ever happened.

Like you never danced over the broken pieces of my heart with steel-toed boots.

You burden my mind.

You make me act irrationally.

You make me climb up building like a superhero to get to you.

This is what you want other people to believe.

You fail to mention that you gave me a key on the day you moved into that apartment on the fifth floor.

This is a burden I cannot lift.

This is a scar that will never go away.

I will never heal if your needle keeps poking me.

You had the key to my heart,

But you threw it away.

Now you try to find it again.

You know all my weaknesses.

You use my own weakness against me.

You play mind games.

You are hot one minute,

And you are cold the next.

Everything you touch breaks apart.

You wonder why.

You got inside my head.

I let you have my heart.

The second I forget about you.

You show up on my doorstep.

But when I reach out to you,

I am ignored.

You will never make up your mind.

You want my heart in limbo.

You want me to fight for your attention.

You want me to break,

Like everyone you touch.

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This poem is featured in the poetry collection "Passing Skeletons."

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