Deadly Snake

His words crumbled my smile like ancient rigid bread

Steering my thoughts

Like a car, tires exploding, engine rattling and out of control

I felt my heart rip into two, one side for him, the other wallowing with hate

My knees felt like jello about to collapse from the unsought weight of pain

As he walked away, I fell

The ground so far away I could have sworn it disappeared under my agony

Like it was afraid to feel what I felt, I would have run away too

I laid there exhausted with burning torment

The air turned colder as if to cool me down

Like it cared whether or not I blew up in a massive mountain of flames

I felt dead, like I belonged six feet under in the nearest graveyard

As if I were a living zombie, just waiting for a time to strike

I returned home, it felt like a million years later

Reading through the old letter he sent me, the old pictures we took

Tears falling down, like dying stars do in the sky

He is a poisonous snake, deadly and vicious

Something you would never see coming

Before it bit you

Before it took your last breath away