• hush the daylight and you were a thief • ( 8 ) 'life's not easy', you can't say. you weren't the showman, now show them. show them the heartstrings that strum no more, the thumbs and the fingers that were about to be cured, a mouthful of ulcers holding the unsaid words, memories on the fingers triggered by the handlines she chiseled. a shame? that she left you in the lurch with just a text. guilt? of not having the firm hands. doldrum? of slipping the rom-com you once had. or fault? of defying yourself to have known her the best? maybe none.