Unrequited

How do you mend a broken heart?

How do you save a lost soul?

I'm lost in the darkness

I feel so alone, I feel so cold.

I put my all into you darling,

and it just wasn't enough.

This is a hurt beyond what I am capable of expressing;

an emptiness, a void, a black hole that is pulsing and aching.

I feel so God damn weak,

and I won't pretend I'm tough when I'm not.

Second day in a row where I get no sleep,

because my ruthless mind just won't shut off.

There is simply no escape,

from the pain that sinks right in.

Am I just another mistake?

Was I simply a distraction?

I would walk a million miles,

just to see you one more time.

I would die a billion deaths,

if it meant that you'd be mine.

But you can't make a thorn love a rose,

or so I have been told.

I was a blooming flower, and you pricked me,

and left a scar to hide the poison.

If I don't suck the poison out,

my condition will surely worsen.

But maybe if I keep it in,

I will finally learn my lesson...

to close my heart, not leave it open.

I fought, and cried, and dreamed with you;

I've rotted from the curse of you.

And now you're gone and I can't breathe;

I'm hanging by the edge of my teeth.

I would do anything to keep you,

Because you turn my heart to butter.

But you don't need me like I need you...

So long, my unrequited lover.

Author's Note

I wrote this last summer, when I got my heart broken. NOT recent. I am happy now. I believe this is one of my best poems.

Reviews

[Kortney]

I love this poem. You really express what it felt like to get your heart broken.