Your Sanity Snaps Once Again

your sanity snaps like a branch under a hunter's foot
the mahogany shards of wood driven into my forearm
and everyday i wonder why i stay with you
the countless times i thought this would be the last time
but i came back to you, almost as certainly as the dawn breaks in the night sky
and once again i regret my mistake
and spend my sleepless nights in thought
just to hear your sanity snap once again

1997