Tag Archives: Heartbreak
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So there he was
That three-plus decades-old ghost of a love-of-my-life
Did we frolic and promise
I can’t say
Because suddenly, there he wasn’t
Did I wail, unrelenting
Did I bargain
You’re proof of said sale
Virtual man
Band-aid boy
Slapped against my heart, for I wanted healing quick
I let you
Cut me lengthwise with such narcissistic tongue
With this new heartbreak, find me
Not wailing
Not bargaining
Just reflecting
Lesson learned, this
Motherfuckers like you come and go in waves if I let you
Grown woman, now
I heal good, so no next time
Dime a dozen, you, spy boy, and I’ve put away my pocketbook
And Yet: A Haiku
You loved him perfect
You protected his sorrow
You kept your bed pure
Comfort
Could there be more heav’nly sounds
More clear-cut answer to prayer
As these wondrous crickets’ songs
Bless the lonely air
Tear-stained girl, lovesick boy
“Keep the hope,” ’tis said
This night, they’ll keep you company
Their concert voids the dread
Neverland
I dreamed
I slept
While you
Brokenhearted
Transcended
Locks and laws
And heart barriers
And watched
While I slept
While I dreamed
Of you
Questions from the Kitchen
Why then, the pool of flesh on the floor?
Why then, the hearkening back
Again and again and again?
Linoleum and helplessness
And bargaining
The feel of it all
On my knees
My shoulders, still
A Mother’s love
It’s why I breathe, still
I answer
This November
I need to be talked down to, talked at
And once I’m abandoned, accused
I need life in ruin, in fear
Promise me the Summer, give Winter
Give me this November, promise not
Small-Town
I wouldn’t wish to sit there
With you us-only types
It’d hurt too much, cut too deep
Magnify my too-obvious void
And I wouldn’t want you to see
What I let y’all do to me
Keep your eyes covered
Should I ever have the need to walk
As part of my strategy
To retire the jeers
To bring my story home
desperado
By force, I was an outsider
To survive, I willingly walked
From comfort
To a foreign land
With the hope of finding a home
I traveled by night, hiding
For more than anything, I feared
You’d pluck me from my journey
Back to prison
It was the distance that kept me
From hearing the party you held
I looked down at my knees
Denim and dirt covered
The biggest holes I’d ever seen
Worn through
My struggle evident to me now
I was adrift in the desert
You’d no plan to look for me
I spent the rest of my days in the dust
The sun large in a larger sky
Deliriously happy
Desperately heartbroken
Floweth
All this there is
Things -oh so many things
There are
That now never will I
Conceive and utter
Yet I could only hope
Only Hope
So I expected a chance
I was stopped
As I journeyed
