Breaking Bones

Nervous giggles
Bubbling laughter
a twinge of uneasiness,
attempts to conceal it.

a loud crack echoes about the room;
jump back, startled, and
start giggling nervously again,
louder.

excitement, fun;
at the cost of sanity, the bubbling laughter
only just grazing complete hysteria.

looking in to the now barred abyss,
things that shouldn't
change.