The empathic surge 
When I hang on your words
As though you are pouring oxygen into my veins
But I feel it as the blood drains
Out and aside
And as I sit beside
Who I think I know
I take a second look at the blow
He gave me when he thought I couldn’t see
Am I supposed to think it’s me
Sacrifice my dignity
And his eyes range over the scene 
As if it’s concrete in the dream
And she’s just a victim of his rapacious will
An aggrandisement, a dragon that would kill
In the moment a star is born
I never thought to warn
Anyone else about what I had seen
I just assume this is how you have always been
And as I analyse 
I watch as the illusion dies
It flickers just before it goes out
It escapes from your grasp like the words from your mouth
And you turn stonewall cold
I hit the ice but I’m just a girl
In your incantation
And your feeble attempts at education
To seduce the mind
Just mean I can leave you behind
With no trace of guilt 
The ground underlies the flowers that wilt
And to be co-opted into your bed
Is just making me laugh because you said
I could plant my feet right there
As if you even care 
About where I grow 
The valley has taught me slow
That the seeds you water today will bear fruit in the morn
I heard you cry the day you were born
And baby eyes look at me 
I look away because I don’t think you see