Toxic Emotion

there it is. there in the stillness, in the quiet. when you have exhausted yourself beyond repair, it will creep in and sit with you. invited or not, in the silence when your guard is down and your walls are crumbling....reality gets comfortable in your presence. that foreign, raw emotion burns deep in your gut, clenches your chest, and squeezes your soul. when it's just you and the void....when you can no longer believe the lies that you spin to defend your heart, the truth is spoken in a raw, toxic emotion. he's gone ...