I remember love
As if it were a million lives ago,
Cast away by the one
Who called it
Our new forever
And then broke my heart
With a divisive word
So insincere and insidious
A sword cut through me
And turned of the lights.
There in the dark
All my precious things were stolen
A missing treasure
Unable to return
A face without
A voice of reality
Took away meanings
Feelings and affections
And replaced them
With rotten air.
She robbed me
With secrets resembling the truth
And walked like lies
Taking and not giving
Her adorable jewels
Promises aplenty
Are empty boxes
Littering my logical landscape
In heaps of vomit
And reeking garbage.
Love is not forever
When fallacy is camouflaged
Beneath something
Resembling innocence
Wrapped in deception
Destruction comes
Slow drowning
In shallow siren seas
Until you resemble
A unwanted orphan alone.
Copyright © 2022 Charles Edward York
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