Day 22: The Overwhelm

The overwhelm reflects and magnifies:

You are a giant built like a wall

Angry and primed for a

War of silences

And I am on the other end

Shrinking,

Rolling my shell darker,

Watching my broken machinery

Click and catch –

  your fault -^ my fault ,;;

              your fault -^ my fault -^ ,;;my fault ,;;

I curl too tight when the water doesn’t boil

When the page is empty

When the children cry

,;;

But here you are again

Shrinking too,

Offering to uncurl me.