An Avalanche

There was an avalanche

of emotions,

tumbling uncontrolled, gaining speed,

rushing, exploding outward.

Too many too much.

Boiling over with the pain she recoiled from his touch.

Shaking with a mixture of disbelief and anger

this physical manifestation of a brick slamming into her world.

Shattering her fragile defenses.

Laying bare the raw ugly truth of what

she had denied for so long.

What she had hoped was untrue for so long.

Ending forever any chance of this false life becoming

something more,

of becoming the fairytale she had dared to dream,

for what seemed her entire existence.

He had destroyed utterly with impunity what was,

just moments ago........ a calm sea.