Less than..

Misunderstood and suffocated by your understanding
I'm stumbling up the spiral staircase trying to rise above you
In any way that I can
and your hands are trembling and your lips spew
Threats so empty I can hear the echo
Of everything you didn't say when you had the chance
But now you're burning (distance makes the heart grow stronger)
And it's all I can do not to scream at the top of my lungs
So loud and shrill that the glass in the windows dissolves
Into razor-sharp splinters and
I finally bleed so red you'll fall all over yourself to escape
But my precious ego is pulsing
Throbbing with imagined injury
As you turn it over in your hands
And kiss every vein delicately back to life
If you only knew how sexy I felt there,
A spectacle on the sidewalk
As a car disappears around the corner
their eager stares still hanging in the air
Because I'm not a victim
Im victorious
Your jaws on the floor with every word
that slips from between my dry lips
I'm sputtering truth I assumed you'd be able to see
From where you're standing
And I'm saving your apologetic gushing for another day
When I'm feeling anything
Less
Than perfect…