pain

why did you take it?

something so dear to me,

something you havent earned.

this was the one thing that was mine

and you have it now.

I sit here in silence

and the tears flood down.

did you know this would happen?

was this the plan all along?

you know i'm to quiet to say a word

as you rip it out.

I close my eyes

and escape to a different place.

the thing I protect so hard

you slipped in and left nothing the same.

so please I ask you with my last breath

return my heart to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Angie Diane♥&hea..]

This was really nice. I thought you did a great job. I could feel the pain in the poem as well. Thank you for sharing. :D

nice work!

[RonnieBreight]

This is so sad. The one thing she has is gone. I can only imagine how devastated she would be. I was thinking of this as a rape victim, but in the last line it really broadens it. It's just a broken hearted person. Great job on conveying all the emotion. I love how it's "my last breath" because it shows that this person is so tired of trying that this is the last request.
Again, amazing job.

[David W Moore III]

in comment on your piece, I'll give you mine on almost the same subject, and know that you are not alone:


Smile…

Didn’t Agamemnon find his way home after all his trials?

But I am too plain

I am too much in the sun, shining too bright on my heart.

“All is fair in love and war”; love AND war not love OR war.

And now I must surrender to any passing peasant with a knife.

I have been decimated past my capacity to continue.



She said she had a gift for me and left it at my door.

I opened wide and pulled it in, beauty incarnate.

Little did I know that she studied love and war under the ancient Greeks.

Trojans beware.

Now nothing means anything, and everything, nothing.

In return for her gift, I gave her my soul.

Now that she’s gone, when do I get it back?



Just…

Smile (so others don’t see the torment)

Smile (so others don’t ask)

Smile (so life goes on)

(who cares if it’s not my smile?)

Smile…



© 2010 David W Moore III

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Author's Note

A couple literary references here, one obvious (Trojans war), the other a little more oblique. Agamemnon, after coming home from the Trojan war, was slain by either Aegisthus or his wife Clytemnestra or both of them together (Clytemnestra had taken Aegisthus as a lover during Agamemnon's absence) almost immediately on his arrival home.
There is also a Hamlet reference in there: I am too much in the sun