By me
Date: 9 February 1999

CASSETTE

I listened each day in the silence of my room to that song.
That one song that spoke to me like no other.
It was not our song but yet it captured our essence.
And each day I pressed rewind listening to the song
over and over.
But it was not long before the tape became entangled in the cassette player.
Silly as it may seem I became deeply affected by this.
I removed the tape to find that it was still intact.
I put my fingers throught the holes and rewoound it by hand.
When that did not seem to work I fastforwarded it by hand.
This task took great patient and time and I grew frustrated
and yet I persisted. 
What I discovered was that one side of the tape was flipped over onto the other side. Though they appeared to be going the same way one twisted when you rewound and the other twisted when you fastforwarded it.
Try as I might I could not make them both flat at the same time.
So I put the cassette on the side and tried not to think about it.
I wanted desparately to hear my song again.
But there seemed to be no hope.
So I waited hoping that the tape would just flatten itself out.
I even tried playing it but the song was warped and no words could be understood.
I often thought about my tape and how empty my life was without that sweet song to speak to my soul.
And one day I returned home from the store and I discovered that my brother had tried to fix the cassette. 
But the tape had snapped in half and the song was gone.
I could try to find another song...but I don't want to hear another song.
I could try to buy another cassette but I want THAT cassette.
But that cassette is gone....just like you are:(