Breakapart - Acollective

Heart starts beating

Faster than the images

That flash before your eyes

Chest is aching

Then again it might be

That the dress is just too tight

And now the fun part’s over

Memories are honeytraps

With no more cheques to cash

I feel ready, years of crooked steadiness

Are foaming at the mouth and attack.

Heart stops bleeding,

It radiates but who knows if it’s left or was it right

A slight distraction,

You sensed it from the get-go

But you can’t go and there’s no getting back

And now a past time lover,

Wrecked and then recovered

Hovers at the doorway and laughs

And I can’t stop feeling

Funny how you let what kept you breathing to now eat you alive.