she has befriended the darkness
that crawls inside her
beyond her clay mask she carves
and paints with green glitter
she lets him step inside
rearrange the bits and pieces of her brain
shade it gray like charcoal
create a gentle storm
as her reflection pours out of the glass
she lets the darkness pull the ropes
her worth diminished to less than a dime
her beauty as existent as a flat earth
and once he's made his humble home
darkness cannot be evicted
he feeds upon her rotten walls
he forges her own thoughts
he carves a letter deep inside
until she finally bleeds out every word
