sanctuary

when you found my words

i lost my sanctuary.

when you wouldn’t hold me

the words did

and now you read the words

and both of you betray me.

i have nowhere to go now.

i am a child of the moon

that lives in the daylight

and nobody knows my name.

my home that was you

and the escape i fled to

when our house burned

is a pile of ashes

the wind plays with.

the walls that kept me once

are the ones that get too close

and my breath hangs

between you and the words

i will choke on.