The shadow sits beside me.
A hulking mass of seething hate.
Suffocating, intoxicating,
misery haunts this space.
Howls of everything I'm not
rest upon my chest, until it caves.
Second-hand guilt is too much to bear,
I wasn't built for such a weight.
The violent silence
settles in,
and my heart begins to race.
Who would have thought,
that thoughtfulness,
would be what seals my fate?
