Design the question to

Alleviate a cellphone twitch. 

Distinguishing a text 

From an email. 

And I’ll never bother her 

Again. Of course I lie,

In operation of survival. 

To make it hurt less. 

Swallowing pride 

And it tastes like cracked glass. 

Reflection fractured,

Compensation 

For when I’m acting up. 

Darling. 

Darling. 

Darling. 

Repetition creates comfort, 

But we never settled-in 

To relax? Fuck. 

We wanted to climb mountains,

When the challenge included us…

I fell from off the edge

And positioned suicide as innocence lost.