Broken

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The unthinkable had occurred. Their tiny world had dissipated in a matter of moments.
Glass hearts shattered into shards, slicing them to bits.

Why couldn't she have kept him by her side?
Altercations arose, day after day, the screaming, the obscenities tossed to and fro. It grew to be too much for his damaged state.
On the brink of losing his sanity, the past had kept a close nip at his heels for as long as he could remember. Couldn't she see how her pain was bleeding into his?
Couldn't he see how her heart was dying with every silent gaze he threw? Two mangled souls who wished nothing but the best for each other's hearts, their love was weakening by the seconds.
Tick tock....
Love conquers all?
Choice.
The choice conquers all.
Could they choose to endure for eternity, or would they break?
They broke.
In opposite directions they flew. Souls tearing with the distance, for they that had had become one, was soon to be half of a whole.

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