You Tried?

"“You tried?” I looked her in the eye and smiled, “My girl, you must understand that fear is not some product that I made; it crept unwelcome in my head the day they had her torn away. It changed me. Now at the end of everyday, I lie awake at night and wait to feel the wires of my brain get cut and quietly rearranged, and hear my beaten heart exclaim, “still I refuse to let her go!” So we escape to our mistakes, for they wait patiently for us.”"