Hello.

I have one thing to

ask of you.

Go and look in the

mirror.

Go on.

So that I can…

see you.

Go on.

You need to do this.

Wherever you are,

go and find a mirror.

Go to the toilet, or

the bathroom.

Get one out of your

bag.

Please don’t read

any further until

you’ve found a

mirror.

I need you to find a

mirror.

Thank you.

Look at yourself.

Every line in your

face.

Your story.

Look at your lips.

Can I kiss you?

What do you think

people will say?

Looking down at

that face?

After you’re gone?

Maybe it won’t be

anything.

Can you remember

the time when you

broke that thing of

mum’s?

When we were kids?

I can’t remember

what is was.

A glass bowl?

A vase?

Everything breaks.

Everybody breaks

…your heart.

Yes?

Yes.

And now it’s just me

and you.

Me here.

You in the mirror.

And I’m sorry for

that

But it was the only

way.

To become free.

And for that I love

you.

With all of your

broken heart.

With every tiny

fragment.

Crushed like snow

and cast up into the

air.

Falling like leaf-

skeletons.

Forever falling.