I Don't Need Anyone

Broken beyond repair
She sits at her computer
Wondering
Why should it matter
It shouldn't hurt
It doesn't matter

But it does
It breaks her heart
And she can't do anything
about it
Everything hurts her
It was getting better
But then it broke her

She was so close
It started to not matter
The twisted carnival mirror
was slowly changing
showing the real her
Not a terrifying version
that haunted her
every time she saw it

Betrayed by the ones
she thought she could trust
the ones she'd been told
were the only ones she should trust

Her heart grows cold
closed.
A wall goes up
brick by brick
until it surrounds her fragile heart
an impenetrable shield.
The pain is erased from her features
her expression concealing it all

She sits at the computer late at night
the room illuminated only by the light
from the computer screen
her hands rise and strike the keys
four words. her new reality.

I don't need anyone.