hardened

Through desperation
her failures grew tall
fishing for her smokes
she'd already smoked them all
each of her delusions
birthed by the last
added on and multiplied
subtracted from her past
so completely paralyzed
by a crippling fear so tense
I told her she would never climb
an electric fence
walking through the door
with nothing left to say
she put on her black shades
went back on her way