Heart For Rent

Poem about how it felt to play the love game and lose.

I have been evicted 

Cast into the murky alley 

Who could have predicted 

Wouldn't have guessed this as our finale

Don't know why I was addicted

It's not in my mentality 

To be so afflicted

By a love with no morality

But you were my home

Not much of a home

With your cardboard heart and your vacant eyes

Your soul was hollow yet full of lies

What I mistook for passion became a possession

Love laced with deception turned into obsession

Keeping you was a game I had to win

Driving me to the brink of a looney bin

Was it such a sin?

To want to win?

To be let in?

Even if only held together by safety pins

Waiting to burst at any moment

Thought you were my lover 

Turns out you were my opponent

No use to be a proponent

No use to plead my case

I was only just renting this space.

Author's Note

please tell me what you thought.

Reviews

[AaronFreitas]

I love the flow to this write and how you poured out emotions... very honest and that's what
made it most enjoyable. I can relate to the hurt and the pain...the disappointment and the
loneliness the comes after the heartbreak. Excellent job expressing yourself :)

[Alias]

I love the final line, hints at the temporary nature of the relationship, really good!! First 2-3 stanzas especially nice flow and great vocabulary.

[Jessalynn]

Thank you so much. Vocabulary is probably one of my favorite things about writing. You cant talk like that anymore to people they wont understand you.

[Alias]

haha I know the feeling, that's why poetry is such a good format to use it in x

[McBear]

This was very good! Well written and interesting..

[wordman]

loved it! just renting a space,bet that's true for many