Maybe you saw a dog but I saw a dragon
It’s a figment of your imagination but for me it’s reality
My heart pumps blood just like yours but my eyes see the shadows on the wall
They dance and laugh at your ignorance
But I stay quiet and simply nod

At age eight I was put into a room
White and sterile
The musky smell masking the tears
The dragon came back to comfort me
When you wouldn’t
As you watched me behind a sheet of glass
Each and every tube that coursed through my body almost as though they were my veins
You told me it was for my own good
But the voice told me that you were lying

At age 10 I laugh at the talking dolphin that I nicknamed Fred
But you stare blankly at my outstretched hands and shrug
Refusing to grasp the comfort of my laughter
You don’t want to sit under the cherry trees and eat the apples that fall from it
Because it doesn’t make sense
But to me it does

And now I sit at age 20
My mind blank
The black ravens circling overhead and even if I try to swat them away
They are replaced by vultures
The caw and await for me until my vision is clouded in dark
The red wine staining my dark blue jeans
Because all I can remember is the freakish voice
How every breath made me want to put my hands around your throat
And simply close them tighter and tighter
But now I see that you weren’t the one for me