Heartbreak Handbook

Can we hear them break?
The hearts of those who fell too hard.
The hands they held - the ones they loved. Or thought the did at least.

That one you just heard - She was just like the rest, she fell asleep to a soundtrack of his name.
For months at a time it played, until one night, the words skipped.
It missed a beat, slowed down, and then surely, it stopped.

The pain she felt, convinced she was the only one.


The songs that once were her lullabies are now the loop that sings another willing girl to sleep each night.