The inner pounding in my chest has stopped. My heart is broken. regret and self pity fill me with vile sensations. I want only to cease the pain it continues to bring me in the darkest hour of night. When I am alone with my thoughts. A pain that was once joy throbbing inside of me. Now a pain that kills me slowly with each pump of blood. My heart a tool of my very own self destruction. I must destroy it. Yet I continue to live with it A daily reminder that I must not end. A daily reminder that you're slowly killing me. Inside and out.