Brick by Brick

• Brick by brick and stone by stone
• you’ve torn our home asunder.
• You’ve pulled the walls down,
• wrested plaster and plumbing,
• leaving rubble. Less than nothing.
• Below your watchful eye
• I fear there’s nothing left to hide.
• Having stripped me bare, unearthed my lies,
• what is left now but my beating heart
• and you.