"I fear for you" - Riveros

Описание: "I fear for you" - Riveros

You want me as a fragment—
a broken shard
throwing its shadow
into lower dimensions.

You crave to understand what I am,
to map my shape with trembling hands,
to stare through the cracks in my name—
but you flinch at the light leaking out.

You beg to watch me spread my wings,
like truth is a spectacle,
like ruin is a lesson,
like my hunger won’t notice you.

You say: “Show me.”
But your throat is already closing.
Your eyes already praying
for darkness to stay polite.

I fear for you.
Don’t make me open my wings.
I fear what I am—
I fear what you will see.

I am not a symbol.
I am what remains
after meaning is skinned alive
and left to rot in the snow.

I wear my fractures like teeth,
I speak in collapsing rooms,
I cast my shadow downward—
and it multiplies.

If I unfold,
the air will learn to scream.
If I unfold,
your god will look away.

You want the answer,
but answers have claws.
You want the truth,
but truth does not forgive witnesses.

I fear for you.
Don’t make me open my wings.
I fear what I am—
I fear what you will see.

Leave me sealed.
Leave me unholy and shut.
Let me be only the shard—
not the blade.

Because you asked for the sky,
and what I carry
is the void
that follows it.