As a Jewel Tossed Aside

For a lifetime, I had you

Your heart, your soul

And you saw me as the air

that fills your bosom with life

But I forgot that clinging isn't permanent

These big houses rest alone with their memories

The heart hangs in emotional adventures

embracing the sky-falls, as it endures.

 

Of all the times I had wanted

To love you more than I knew or could!

In your depths you were a restless vacillation.

 

You kept me in constrained boxes

But as a jewel you forgot to value me

You never wore me

and tossed aside as you found illusive diamonds

You never appreciated

My plutonium luminosity, wasted on you

The insipid depravity of missing your voice

When all I've known are the metaphors of my poems.