There's Something Broken Poem by S.MICHAEL DOWNS

There’s something broken in me.
Something small but essential
Something important and central.
Something that makes me ugly.

It should be there, but it isn’t.
It vanished on a cold winter night.
It shattered against the hard walls of my heart.
It cannot be repaired.

It had an important role.
Its absence left a hole in my essence.
It never learned about love.
It made me hurt myself.
It made me hurt others.

There’s something broken in me.
And I never knew it.
Until now.