Heartsick

"Carter Wills"

It’s hell on the heart,

and stains on the soul.

Leaves the blood boiled,

and the lungs like coal.

 

A pit in the stomach,

and a scratch in the throat.

Bloodshot eyes rimmed with red,

your body poisoned without antidote.

 

It’s a helluva thing, isn’t it?

Feeling it all at once.

That it only takes a single minute

to ruin the work of months.

 

I’m talking love, of course

Or rather it’s painful loss.

For it takes only the briefest moment

to turn all that’s fair to dross.

 

And so here one shall sit,

ashes still fresh on the tongue.

Dreams filled with the thought of them

and the life that had begun.

 

But that loss is now all that remains

and all that time for naught.

And so the heart hurts every day

for what it wishes could be forgot.

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  • Friendship

    This poem is to articulate the profound sadness and disillusionment that come with love lost, capturing the struggle to move forward while grappling with lingering memories and dreams.

  • sorenbarrett

    Here is a poem that the cynics would adore, a piece of the heart poured on the floor. A drip of poison put in the mix a potion that no cupid can fix. Sorry couldn't help myself. It is a marvelous poem well constructed and one that so many can identify with a fave



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