I carried the wrath of the broken.
Or maybe—
It carried me.
Are we broken for the better,
Or just addicted to the dark?
A rose in the mud.
Wrong side of midnight.
Nothing grows here—
It survives.
Shadows of old friends
Linger longer than they should.
Laughter echoes—
Warped now,
Still sharp enough to cut.
There is a stillness
Between breaths.
Not peace—
Just pause.
We reach for it anyway,
Mistaking silence
For healing.
Trapped in the quiet unravelling,
We miss the tremors
Of collapse.
No impact.
No warning.
Just the slow, sinking truth—
We were never fighting anything else.
We became
The enemy
We swore we’d never face.
