Broken Candy Canes

There were forever a million and one reasons to
why I saw butterflies and blue skies
when I looked in his eyes

Because lies were what he lived in.

Every story of millipedes and thunderstorms just
gushed through his body like gamma rays without halt
for he never listened to my cries because
he once told me
he was in love with my laughter.

I freeze myself in moments handpicked by him
and replay them like broken recorders
but it never sickens him because
he was in love with my laughter.

A million and one reasons to
why I saw butterflies and blue skies
when he looked in my eyes
because every time I cried
he closed his eyes

and drifted away to dreams of
my smiles.