I feel a smile

Break across me like the sun.

I feel a heartbeat

Tuned with mine, we run.

I feel laughter,

Deep inside me.

I feel pain,

But they don't see.

I feel like glass,

Whole and clear,

A window for the things

That other people fear.

I feel myself,

Down deep inside,

In the place

Where nightmares hide.

I feel like water

Frozen solid

By the words

They've said.

I feel like glass.

I am whole,

And now I'm broken;

I hide inside my soul.

I shatter

So that they can't see

The things I hide:

Pieces of me.