Wildly, I erupt in panic, tears falling, breath catching, the burning core of who I am torn into two as I see what cannot be true.  

Blinking rapidly, I pant, blink, pant, blink, each time expecting, each time terrified, something to change, nothing changes.

What words, what thoughts, what answer can explain the rend in reality that has broken my mind, fractured my soul, opened up my body so another can inhabit it's space?

I scream at those eyes, plead with myself to acknowledge that nothing is wrong, that I am only having a temporary break from my sanity, sobbing when I look back caustically at myself, tears on my fingers betraying the lie on my face. 

A blubbering, frightened child.

A restrained acerbic stranger.

I cannot tell, must hold my secret close.  I am afraid that they will tell me what I already know; I am crazy.  They will lock me up, take me away from my home, strip me of what sanity I have left.

So I must live.  I must pretend.  I must hide the eyes that are not mine, hide the identity that threatens to steal mine, become exactly who they expect me to be.

I must believe the lie.

The star winks bright and highlights her plight

She sees no light

She cries while her blood dries in puddles dark

She sees no light

Alone her broken heart moans her skin cut open

She sees no light

For years she has wandered a life spent floundered with no one to care

Her blood like water it seeps and creeps through 

A crack in the floor one drip and then more

A lonely soul sits below 

Dark red drops one by one plops upon a resting hand

A cry of horror leads the lonely soul to her

The star winks bright and highlights her plight

She sees light

She cries while her blood dries wrapped in gathered cloth

She sees light

No longer alone her broken heart groans as she is gathered close

She sees light

For years they wander no longer floundering two souls no longer alone

You taunt and I want to rip you to pieces 

for opening my humanity 

to make me bleed at your words.

My insecurities flood the ground 

because I believe the words you say 

that should mean nothing 

if only I knew who I was.

I say nothing, 

you do not feel my rage or my hatred.

My back is to you as I walk away 

my feelings pouring warm as blood from my soul.

I have let you say who I am, 

mold me like wet mud wrapped around a pool of water that holds 

all that I am.

Rippling with each taunt, you skip over my waters 

and sink in deep, 

your lies drowning to become me.