how did i get so lost? i touched the end. just a moment longer. but they tempted me. they tempted me so. in the warm water, i lost myself. my mind fled with my strength and left me alone with her. the robotic soulless *******. the urges. the pain. i thought i banished the past the painful past haunting every corner of my anatomy but i did not. i could not. no man could forget. no angel could overcome the broken insides and the crushed souls fluttering desperately in my rib cage they cannot escape. and neither could i