the momentum of stopping

i am behaving like a melodrama. my heart mimics book titles; The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A Heartbraking Work of Staggering Genuis. Love Like Water.

I am a cactus in a thunderstorm. I am exisitng in the moments between call and response. You can't hear me because I am imperceptible. I can't stop because the momentum would cause a crash in the main street of town.