Random Short Stories

Broken Titanium

BROKEN TITANIUM

You're a bull in the china shop, did you know that?

And my heart is just plain porcelain.

So I keep it locked in a titanium safe.

Now you can't break in through that and so I will not break.

No need to tiptoe around me. You can be you and I can be me.

Now we can converse without me fearing you'd break me and you feeling that I'm too good for you.

I call that friendship and that's all I want.
But then you don't want just that.

You want me to put in the combination and click open the safe.

You want to be more than what we are now because you claim I own your heart.

But if I open the safe, I'll make myself vulnerable to break.

And honey, It's not a probability but a sure certainty that you will break me.

That's just who you are.

No, I will not open this titanium safe.

But now you're leaving.
Because I won't open it.
And for some reason the porcelain
In my titanium safe is cracking.

And for that same reason I'm getting a bigger better safe for my broken titanium safe .
All the while hoping that my cup doesn't turn into Ice.