literature

a lost love is irreplacable

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i wish you and i would fall in love again
because i just don't get how people expect me
to walk around with this gaping hole in my chest
where my heart's been ripped out by its ragged roots
like some kind of unwanted, cancerous
growth.
[because it is. because i don't want it,
                                     and it's slowly killing me.]

and if you think i can breathe much longer
well, honey, you're wrong, again
because even though my lungs are inflating
there is nothing to feed me oxygen
and i am suffocating on your smile.
[stitch up your lips
                     so i can catch my breath.]

oh but darling, i fucking miss you
but there are no butterflies in my stomach
when i see you, only this screaming agony
that makes me see white spots
like that time you and i watched the stars
from your bedroom window.
[but there is no sky;
                 you tore it down when you swallowed the moon.]
they say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that's only so long as there is one beating in your chest.

---

hey, look, a real poem!
i'm sorry, this is probably pretty terrible, but i am sad.
like i always am, which is getting really ridiculous, isn't it?

i'm sorry.

poem (c) ~L-forever
© 2009 - 2024 L-forever
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offbyzero's avatar
Isn't it tore?
Lol, gah, now I dunno...
But I love that line, nevertheless. And other lines that so well put that together.
Sorry, still, about your sadness. I pathetically have nothing better to say. I just wish you weren't. You don't need that.