Pressure mounting

The way a balloon inflates, the pressure mounts within.  Even at half capacity the balloon appears full yet it's ability to expand has yet to be tested.  Just when we think it can not take another hot breath, it expands once again and the pressure mounts.  It has been stretched to its fatal limits.  We force further expansion.  We push the limits for no other reason than the fact that we can.  We know that this can not go on.  We know what is going to happen but somehow we are surprised when things blow up in our face. The violent eruption startles us as if we didn't know it was imminent.  Then we are left with nothing resembling ourselves.  We are fragmented and unrepairable.