Breaking

Breaking - 14.3.2013

Beneath duress, stressing out the beams
The roof creaks, and it breaks
Letting in the rain
Torrential, chilling
Flooding the building

Within hand, grasping tightly, fingers winding
The glass trembles, and it shatters
Shards embedded in hand
Cutting deep, bleeding
No screams, no cries heard

Fingers dancing, wrists moving back and forth
Across keyboard and paper and pen
Alike, words onto retinas
Draining, burning
The only things known, only thing learned

Ears pushing inwards, descending ever lower
Pressure bursting, and slumping
Over desks and onto seats
Breaking, dying
Normal, mundane, unworthy of note