i sleep,with a broken mirror by my bed. screeching tires in my head running horses, inside my chest there's a throbbing silence; a regular guest i speak, with a surface skimming tone a notion that i'm unimpressed. "you haven't grown". the voice inside my head, a fact I can't digest: "you should have known" i cry, with a hidden sympathy turning my stomach, tight. wish you thought i was the thing that you did right, although you said you love me, so my heart knew lies, i didn't know i laugh, with a broken record sound, it is out of practice. the obvious absence of sincerity takes over- emotion detaches i'm failing, at fooling myself, he chose her i walk, with an unbalance to my step. a pulling rope around my heart, a blind old man behind my eyes searching for hope- who holds the rope? Casile Hayward