strength is a weakness...

"only human" is the well-used description, as if mankind were all-too weak...

in fact, the opposite is true; we are far too rugged for our own good, built to endure far too much... better if we could simply expire from heartbreak, when no peace is in sight...

better to be light, like a bird, with delicate constitutions to suit our tender hearts; better to not be seen anymore, than to be seen like this:

• when nightmares have come true;
• when hope flickers like the bare end of the match that burns your fingers;
• when hearts have broken so completely one would think they served as a support structure for the entire being, and that absent that support one is able to do little more than crawl...

we should walk upright, with or without a heart made whole, or we should simply expire.