not the same

Shivering with words
poised at her fingertips
she, for the first time
cannot fix this.

The hollowed canyon
echoes it's calls
footfalls back to the
danger back to the loss

Frozen hypotheses
laugh at her
she has no idea of
what is real

Are these merely
inflated problems easily managed?
or lethal worries
downplayed?
by the downtrodden...

she cannot breathe
in the same space
as him anymore
his aura is toxic
everything about him,
harsh.

if something does
not change
he will most
definitely kill her
from the inside out