It’s your silence I can’t abide
The close-lipped glance of pity at my pain
Your busy mouth suddenly stopped to take in the fullness of my anguish
Struggling to regain composure,
I plaster the smile back on to save you
(Just what you want)
Flopping heavily back on my filth mountain to clumsily stave off another eruption
Tired hands go back to tidying the detritus from your other life in wonder at how a creature which has been crushed so small could somehow be so vast,
And how so vast a creature could disappear
You will never love me like I love you
Not quantity
The difference
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
The tempo of my trudging dirge