You Left

By adbates

Sat, 07 Mar 2015
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I know you expected me to yell ‘wait’

As you walked away

But there was only silence

 

And you kept walking

further and further away from me

away from the past

(that clouded your judgement)

 

the present

(that was becoming less of a gift

and more of a curse)

 

the future

(that we kept saying would get better)

 

If you’d looked back

You would’ve seen me doubled over

Screaming so loudly

I couldn’t be heard anymore

 

You would’ve seen boiling tears

too thick to see you walking away from me

 

And you would’ve seen me shaking

It had nothing to do with the below freezing weather

 

But you didn’t look back

and it’s probably for the best 

Certificate U
Poem
An Ongoing Love Letter
Love

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

A desire to hold on to love, though afraid of seeming weak, holds us back from saying what we really mean, so we say nothing. This is how I read your poem, hope I got it right.

An interesting read.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by adbates on

Thanks. That's partially what I was trying to convey, but it was really a mixture of two things.

There's the need to hold onto something, because of all you've invested in it. 

Then, there's a lack of communication in this relationship. Possibly, that's the reason that the relationship was failing to begin with. It's definitely the reason the relationship ended, though. If he had turned around instead of just listening while he walked away, he would've seen what he wanted to hear.