My Broken Heart

Internet romance gone bad

What do you do when you feel like you will never smile again?

I am feeling the pain now, in the heart.

I pray my misery ends soon.

We were never together so how can we part?

I am empty over someone I never had.

I am lost because he filled my thoughts. Now my focus point is gone.

Wandering around lost over the battle I fought.

But it's still just me, like it has always been. Just me.

This will be a new story one for me because I built him up so high.

I placed him before God and now he is gone.

When I go to try reasoning, all I can do is sigh.

How do I not love me?

Our love was real, our love was strong but there was a kink in our weak chain and it broke.

It was communication , just like a married couple it stopped.

Damn my heart is breaking.

LSW

Reviews

[Temperance]

Meeting someone online is always a risk. There are so many questions that need to be answered before one should feel comfortable. So many are looking for love and, when we think we are in love, we get that giddy feeling and it feels good. In order to truly love some else one must love themselves first. Difficult for some to do but, taking care of yourself should be a priority. It's also a way of looking out for yourself. You're no good to anyone else if you aren't good to yourself first. Focus on you now. The person that you are meant to be with will not break your heart. Have faith and trust in God. Your friend, Temp

[Linda Stinson Wells]

Sorry I have been to long in reading your review. I have been in a lot of pain lately. I had s shot yesterday but the surgeon said it would take two to three days for it to take affect. I will get back to you soon. Take care.

[Temperance]

Prayers for a fast recovery

[Linda Stinson Wells]

AMEN! And thank you.

[John the Baptist]

Romantic love has always been popular, but it tends to build up expectations that cannot be met. Sooner or later the idealized other will prove to be only human, and the balloon will deflate. I know such advice doesn't help in the hour of pain, but the best thing to do is let the thing pass and cleave to the spirit.

[Jibey]

It is easy to fall in love with a dream... and the pain of parting is as real as reality.

It's good to unpack your feelings into words and to share them. A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

It will pass....

[JayG]

Fifteen lines in this piece
Nine lines contain "I."
Two of the rest contain "me."
One line contains "we."

So, twelve lines are you talking about you, and unknown who in someone unknown way makes "we."

So, you're talking to the reader about you—someone they know nothing about. The reader can't ask for clarification. Do you care if someone you'll never meet, and know nothing about is unhappy that they're no longer with someone unknown, for unknown reasons? Of course not. The reader won't be sympathetic, because we've heard only your side of the story. And in any case, the reader hasn't come hear how you feel.

Look at one line as a reader must:

• We were never together so how can we part?

If the speaker and the unknown being talked to were "never together," why is this person misrable? The story in your head never reached the page.

Always, always, always edit from the seat of a reader who lacks all context till you supply it, and expects to have the context as they read the line. One trick is to have the computer read it to you. We pick up a lot that way.

Sorry my news wasn't better. But you did ask. 😆