Box

I keep you in my mind

It acts like a box

I keep you there

Because you seem perfect

Like some nerdish figurine collector

I want you in original packaging

Sponge

I absorbed everyone in the room
And then I lost myself

In their examination
I can't see how they see me

In judging them,
I feel blank

Fireworks and Rivers

An explosion from nowhere

Eyes following the blaze as it streaks across the sky

We ooh and aah from a distance

Yet if we were any closer

We’d scream

That’s how detached I feel sometimes,

Like I’m watching a firework show

I don't want to touch but I have to watch

Aware of the danger,

Aware that I’m saved by distance

Other times they creep in like the rivers through cracks

I gasp and choke