raider

When her eyes glittered with crystalline tears, his own eyes were dry as he pretended not to be the reason she was crying. When she fell into the chasm, his arms were not long enough to reach her. When her chest almost stopped rising and her breath almost stopped flowing, he was gone, long distances away. She was left, counting the times he'd let her down.

and now he's back, and asking to stay,

but she knows she can't let the same

person who broke down the walls of

her heart in again, because her soul

is just barely patched now, and

she has found somebody else

who wants to make her feel whole

once more, and she cannot tear 

down the gates she's just built

to let a raider in.

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[Raider; synonyms: attacker, assailant, robber, burglar, thief, housebreaker, plunderer, pillager, looter, marauder, ransacker, sacker, invader.]