The love that died
Left a hole
All dreams
Trickled through,
With them
The resilience needed
To keep living.
It was never
her fault.
Somebody had
to be the last.

Friday night
Used to bring delight,
Revelry
Now only stings
with loneliness
You, swimming
In your lover's arms
As I break.
Let it out,
They say.
Why?
It only pours down
the drain,
Rushing like doom
Dragging me further
into darkness.
Each morning
I wake to find you gone.
Pain circling,
Hungry to feast
Upon me
Again.

It's easy
Why are you so sad?
Cheer up!
Buck up,
It's like you're
not even trying.
Quit moping
Quit thinking
Smile,
It's your
own happiness
You're denying.
Some people
have real problems,
You're just faking.
Positivity
cures
all.
Quit your
bellyaching.

We hear this all the time,
Do you think it really helps?
Those endless
thoughtless platitudes
You spit when
we get sore
Maybe if you understood.
Maybe if you knew.
You'd talk a little less,
and listen a little more.

I keep waiting
For you to say "hi"
For that moment of
weakness.
For you to think
of me
A stray memory,
Conflicting with my
Constant yearning.
An urgency
You can't control.
But it never comes.
I keep waiting —
Heartbroken,
Foolish
Left behind.

I remember a time when
I mattered.
So far away now,
Forgotten
Under scars of time.
Indifferent from
the heartache,
It's perspective dulling
Memory.
A rot
Uncertainty
Inhumanity.
I was born
Unnoticed,
To be forgotten.

These endless skies
Always fading
Since you left.
A hollow dawn,
Unforgiving
Like the lies
We get
used to telling.
Love like this
Wasn't made to last,
You were my future
Now I'm just your past.