Let the calm rise upHe looked cross. Cross and exhausted. Finish up your breakfast, Peanut. I gotta get going.
So graceful
Every wasted word
So faithful
Tame the fire from within
You won't break me
Love will tie the tourniquet
And suffocate me
I looked out the window and he struck his hand on the table. EAT.
I jumped fifty feet, hitting my head on the clouds, knocking myself out, choking back honey on toast, swallowing bites whole, breathing in juice until I coughed myself blue.
Bridget.
I look away again, out the window to the sea where no one fights, no one orders, no one yells, and no one disappears either.
Bridget, I'm sorry.
The sea is so blue-
BRIDGET.
WHAT?!
Look at me.
No.
See you tonight. He pulls me out of my chair and into his lap, kissing my cheek, stroking it, resting his head against mine. I love you.
I say it back but nothing comes out. I'm scared if I try harder to talk so he can hear me I'll start screaming for him to stay.