How Could You?

I Swear Someday I'll Forget

You felt me pulling at your shirt
You heard me begging you to stay
You pushed me further from your path
And you kept on marching away

You felt my teardrops on your hands
You felt me pounding on your chest
You saw me clinging to your neck
And told me "give it all a rest"

You saw me bursting at the seams
You watched me crumble into dirt
You didnt even stop to help,
And that intensified the hurt

I know you felt my small heart break
I know you pushed it all away
But deep inside i know you felt
How I felt when you walked away

How could you ever let me go?
How could you stand and walk from me?
How could you even cross the floor...
Without completely shattering?

Is your heart so full of lead
That you cant feel it when it breaks?
Or do you push your pain aside
Just doing whatever it takes?

Your eyes were on me the whole time
You couldnt bear to turn around
I wish you'd fallen down with me and
Then just held me to the ground

I wish you'd strangled out my pain
I wish you'd pushed it far from me
Instead you turned and kept on walking
Instead you didnt even see

That your face is on my heart...
Because you occupy its space
You seem to fill it to its limits
Without you nothing takes it's place

Just turn around before you leave
Clean up this mess that's on the floor
Pick up the pieces left of me
Then go ahead, and close the door.

And leave it there.

Author's Note

tell me how you feel.

Reviews

[Yuko]

Really sad and emotional. Good job with this! You really made the reader feel what you were trying to say. It can be so true too. This is a really beautiful poem.