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Padlock
May 6, 2022
There is something in the air
and I’m not sure what it is.
Something acrid,
repugnant,
looming foulness
Something warm, too warm,
like the damp breath of a mutt
like a bowl of rotten food
like a silence too heavy
and too long
There is something in the air,
and when I meet your eyes,
I know you know it’s there, too.
A pulsing, writhing mass
of something we know
but dare not speak
A time capsule
of spoiled promises,
of a plead I made
that was never fulfilled
an omen of something dark
There is something in the air
and I know what it is.
It is a padlocked door,
a heavy hand,
a sentence unspoken
unheard
undesired.
I wonder why, for a moment,
you locked it in the first place.
I think I know the answer to that, too.
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This poem is about refusing to communicate because you know a relationship is failing; it’s about the feeling of going down that sinking ship and doing nothing to stop it because you’re too afraid.