Split Wide Open

You are the star of a show you did not ask to be in Standing in the spotlight as the audience Jeers Laughs Sighs Their eyes, they’re glued onto you Trailing you like prey Watching your every move And your words, they’re stuck Lodged in your windpipe, preventing you from breathing And you are Split Wide Open They can see you, all of you Every mistake, every voice crack, every snap you’d made when things got to be too much Too much Everything’s too much now and you know it But you swear they can see right through you Logical thinking had never been your strong suit, it was now out the window Anxiety They called it You, you could have sworn that you were being Split Wide Open