Women of night life amid the lights
Where the line of your full, round throats
Matches in gleam the glint of your eyes
And the ring of your heart-deep laughter:
     It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.

Women of night life along the shadows,
Lean at your throats and skulking the walls,
Gaunt as a ***** worn to the bone,
Under the paint of your smiling faces:
     It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.

I thought the first time
I’d tell someone I loved them,
It would have been mutual
whilst we were together and happy.

Instead, the first time
I told someone I loved them,
was two months post split whilst
they were telling me they had moved on.

Everyone will tell you that you’ll get over it,
that you will meet someone new and
all the feelings will quickly be forgotten.
For a long time you won’t believe that is true.

It may take you days or weeks or maybe months
you feel like you are going crazy
because all you can think or talk about is
that one person that left you in pieces.

You will try distract yourself,
whether it be with work or alcohol
or even a stranger and you will begin to feel
like nothing will ever work.

You will try and convince yourself it’s a sign,
that the person that broke you
is the one that can fix you rather then you
continuing to try fix yourself.

You won’t want to get out of bed,
you won’t want to go to work,
you won’t want to see your friends,
all you want is to see them;

But one day you will wake up and
you won’t pretend they are there beside you,
you’ll listen to those songs again
without thinking about them

and you will return to the places
the two of you spent time
because it will no longer
remind you of the memories.

You will sit there and realise
the faults you saw in them
weren’t what made them human
but instead completely wrong for you

and most importantly you will see
that if that person was really that special,
they would have realised
that you are too.

Whether you have found someone
or you’re all alone,

you must remember the best relationship you can have,
is the one with yourself.