To All My Broken Pieces

By Ashley Laub

To all my broken pieces

I’m sorry that I worked you

Until you f e l l a p a r t

I’m sorry that I worked you

Until you s p r e a d o u t o n t h e f l o o r

I’m sorry that I worked you

Until you couldn’t anymore.

To all my broken pieces

I’m sorry that I yelled

Until you couldn’t speak

I’m sorry that I yelled

To make you something you couldn’t be.

I’m sorry that I yelled hatred

Until you didn’t know love anymore

To all my broken pieces

I’m sorry that I hated

Most of all I’m sorry

That now you feel it all

Or too deep to fall.

Ashley Laub is in eleventh grade. She is managing to put the pieces back together.