I found you yesterday exactly where I left you in an old shoe box on the far end of a crowded shelf. It was the perfect place, to place the only photo of you I decided not to burn the night you decided to finally tell me it was best if I moved on.
At that time I thought It would take a lifetime to undo all my heart strings they were so tightly tied to you.
They had been bound to you since that first night. We lay intertwined until we saw first light and when your eyes met mine you looked at me like a soldier coming home you held onto me as if inside my chest beat the purple heart you had earned
too soon we learned what a battlefield love can be. You and I marching like soldiers with our flags drawn unable to recognize each other while looking down the barrels of the guns we were holding when all I really wanted you to do was hold me. Wrap your arms around the parts of me you told me were broken.
I broke down as you broke away after I said I needed an I do, and you said "I won't"