She walked, like she did sometimes
Confident, but with a broken step
And she felt his eyes on her spine
Like somehow they mattered
But they never had
His eyes, like others before them
Were searching for a meaning that wasn’t there
And so they saw her, because she let them pass through
Because she knew they’d wander away
Past the broken step of her confident gait
Some eyes mattered, and never saw
For that was when her gait faltered over the cracked cement
The broken step was all there was to see
She walked, like she did sometimes
Confident, but with a broken step
Forced her head to stay upright
Wrenched her eyes away from the cracked cement
