Before We Self-Destruct

We have been here before

Long awkward silences

Inanimate objects floating in the air

Like suffocated words we fear to speak aloud

Lest it ignites the dead flares that cause us to self-destruct

We have always been as dangerous apart

as when we are together

our hearts give out

our souls are in constant flight

our thoughts always seeking

but running away from the truth

that our love is venom

and will one day be the death of us

So here we are

Deja vu replays itself

this lethal stand off stares us in the face

the same reasons we fight about arise

but this once

I refuse to fight back

I turn and walk away

and just like that

I pull the pin from the grenade

It starts with a slow soft spark

Then we burn and self-destruct

Just like that

there is no more us

because without you

there is no me