I breathe inside your body like a lung.

You are aware I’m also breathing out.

You close your eyes and try to bite our tongue.

You needn’t worry – I can always shout

across your silences, attempts at peace,

I amplify the chatter into noise.

You start to ground yourself to make me cease

but I possess the darkness in your voice.

I flood your brain and body with high guilt,

a stimulus, response, it must be true;

through tears you realise I am what you built

and I exist only because of you.