Letting Loose

You sighed when I sat you down, terror in your eyes and a smile laced with uncertainty. Who are we to live in a grimacing world where nothing really matters but the outside? As I take away your breath we race toward truth within tragedy, and you smile as if you mean it, but nothing is believable anymore, not here, not today. Raspy voiced I cry for attention, but you don't want it. I'm trying to explain but the words come out in scrambled letters, as if I were asking for forgiveness where none is needed. My heart can't bear the thought of this uncertainty anymore, so I keep my silence, hold my chin up, and walk into the darkness alone without cowardice. Your footsteps ring out behind from the shadow, but I'm not turning around to explain anymore. This is not my battle.