.)

some things break your heart all the time

over and over again 

like hail hitting the pavement or the steady click of a clock that ticks only when 

some thing some where is cracking in two.

more than a dull ache, the hitting of your head against a wall

repetitive and methodical

the rituals that allow us to embody the hurting

the choice we have to make 

(to step away

from things that we can't fix