A Short Story for Someone I Love

With his chest ripped open, he walks

His heart fully visible

Beating erratically

He walks,

With a slit down his forehead

For his thoughts to leak out

Forming a storm cloud above him

Constantly striking lightning down on him

Amplifying his body and mind

Each nerve filled with so much energy

You can see the lighting traveling through him

If you look into his widening eyes

You can see their electricity

The veins in his eyes showing signs

Of his mind cracking

They call it insanity

Buts it's just,

The consequence of feeling so intensely.

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With her heart locked away behind her ribcage, she walks

Her heart completely hidden

Beating unknowingly

Her skin is hard

Deflecting

What she could be feeling

Her thoughts don't leak

Because she does not speak

She wants to keep everything neat

Her eyes are cold

As if they were no longer apart of her skull

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As he's walking

Contemplating

Ruminating

Talking to himself Arguing

Getting aggravated

He sees something in his path that makes him stop in his tracks

Suddenly everything is silent

His consciousness becomes present

Snatched from his insides

For once he can hear the wind

It's pleasant.

A girl has stumbled in front of him

And she seems to be struggling to get back up

Naively,

He reaches to her

Forgetting all about his electricity, and his bleeding

He bends down and touches her hand, in an attempt to let his presence be known,

So she knows he can help

But

His touch makes her wince and shoot up,

She tries to pull away from him but he's holding her hand

Now they're looking directly at each other,

Into each other's eyes,

She's looking at him with great fear,

Petrified

At first he doesn't understand why

Then he sees his reflection in her glossy eyes,

It's a monster,

She winces again

She's hurting

He looks at her hand he's holding

Not even aware she's still pulling

And he sees she's breaking

His electricity is seething from his fingertips

Slowly, they travel onto her as cracks on her body

Flowing down her arm, and then spreading to the rest of her body

She can't stand this feeling it's too much for her

Overwhelming

He then realizes this poor girl he's hurting

Is a glass doll

Hard but fragile

She needs to be cared for carefully

Handled gently

Or else she will break

Unfortunately

He can't control his energy

It's too heavy

It's crushing her

He can't stand to see her hurting anymore

So he lets her go

But right before she goes

He saw her eyes change

Like she switched identities

They no longer showed fear

They watered

And filled with desperation

Like they were screaming

Don't leave me

Then she runs away

Something so conflicting

But he believes the words those eyes spoke, more than anything

Because seeing her made him remember that,

Before he broke

He was just like her

He knows eventually that after so many cracks

The glass won't last

You will slowly fall apart

Desperately trying to keep yourself together

But pain doesn't wait

It will come, and hit you faster than you can rebuild yourself

And you will fall into a million pieces

Losing all sense of self

Because you put your all into that glass

When it's all gone

You start free falling through life

Through time

Panicking

Constantly fluctuating

Between beings

There's nothing you can't feel

Your bare skin is dragging against everything

Then there's nothing

Like you have no body

Your eyes just floating

Spectating

You look down at your hands

Debating

If they're yours.

He knows what it's like to go through that alone

So he runs after her.