Shattered Silence

Trusting Love Trust is like the lock of a cage around my heart.  You can rattle it and make it shake to the core.  Battering its fallen and fortified walls, the dark bars reflect its glistening light.  Knocking your knuckles against its sharp edges, the pierce of cold metal ripples through your skin- yet it doesn’t quite hit the nerve. But then, out of nowhere, like a sledgehammer to the ground, you crash into me going a million miles a minute.  I tremble in fear as the expulsion of myself begins to quiver. For now that the door has been ripped open, the lock can never be unseen for what it has become.  Dangling by the thread of a cord, its small frame slowly swings open. Reaching into the cage that surrounds me, you eagerly search for my hand.  Kids playing hide and seek, yet not wanting to be found, I stumble back into the dark corners where no one can see me.  The real me.  I shrink myself into a shrink a dink size and p...