Sweat of the heart, falling like blood,

Loud and beating, undone,

Running away from an endless self

Facing the fight in a hall of mirrors

Cracks called love, cutting,

Shredding the sentiment

That fear has wrought

And ego has mastered

Until all breaks

And courage rises

Against the odds

Finding beneath

images stolen

A better truth

A place inside

Where that desperate one waits

That forgotten love

Before the users

Before using

At once admitting

We know nothing

Unless we truly

know love

(for prompt #10)