Toy Stores

Heres the intro.

She wore his heart like an accessory.
Just another addition.
Not as fashionable or fancy but on rare days,
when her mood was right,
she put him on and wore him out.

Let the beat build.

Construction of destroyed hope into promises never fulfilled,
crumbling skyscrappers and towers to remake them with tooth picks
elmers glue
and it was only a matter of time before a simple gust of wind
could bring him down.
Unprotected and vulnerable
softer with every I Love You,
every 5 hours on the phone and 20000 texts
and when his foundation was shaking loose
she would tell him
that he was all she could have asked for.
Not to worry and to trust her because if he didn't,
they would fall apart.

Crescendo.

Marrionet feelings strung together by someone she wasn't.
Using personalities like a printing press
and everyday brought with it new headlines wrote by someone else,
lived in different shoes and only read about.
Hidding behind cover stories and poetry she didn't write
telling him
this is about you,
this is for you,
I wrote this because of you and
you
are all I could have asked for.

Heart puppetry. He moved when she let him.
When she told him to drive to different airports
and watch planes arrive for hours
questioning every face that came out of the terminal
looking at eta's on screens wondering if
maybe she just got on a later flight
or maybe she had luggage issues or
maybe
she was going to jump out from behind all the worry
put her hands over his eyes and
surprise him like he was a little child in toy store
where puppets dont exist.

But his strings had been cut.
Wrapped around someone else in a different life,
in a different city,
tangled with his hands dangling loose
one leg shaking
cracking foundation tied into a situation
he had only read in headlines across news stations
warning about
internet scams and how real they get
when you forget about protecting yourself.

And this isn't one of those songs the builds up to a positive
or explodes down to finished feelings and closure.
It brings this to wrist bands and earrings
to kids getting nothing christmas morning
and ends

with skyscrapers crashing.