The Break Up

The Break-Up

Your silence

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T’is like a torturer

Twisting a tourniquet

Around my heart

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Papercuts

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Scratch and scar my skin

From many returned

Unopened letters

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No warning

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When you abandoned

A special something

To wither without words

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A numbing

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Replaces all emotions

Dispassionately dissolving adore

Into a nothingness

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Fugacious limbo

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Exists for present

As a grievance therapy

A remedial revivification

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My silence

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Shouts secretly

As aching echoes

Within a broken heart

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Copyright @ Phillozofee 2019

Reviews

[Robert Trakofler]

oh god, please don't read those unopened letters that would tip the scales so much harder! I ache for your heart in this piece, so as it is this comes across so clearly for me to feel this personally and i couldn't compliment your words more. My evil sister (a photographer) once took a picture of her boyfriend as she broke up with him.... your picture reminds me of this.

[I Am Svetlana]

Break ups are definitely grieving therapy...it's like losing a part of yourself within someone else...but sometimes, it may be for the best. It gives you space and forces you to focus more on yourself and finding what makes you happy. I broke up with my boyfriend two months ago and it's still not easy for me sometimes...but it's helped me focus on becoming more independent and focus on my job. It also helps to have a certain thing to help distract you...being around others, making new friends, picking up a new hobby. It all takes time...can't expect everything to be easy.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Yep, had to look up “Fugacious”- love the sound of it Phill! Your image is so powerful, as are your dramatic words. Great language, alliteration, form, use of italics for emphasis and pauses between verses to allow their significance to be absorbed by the reader. Beautiful, painful metaphor and imagery. Love ripped away acutely, emotionally experienced. Great write.

[Angie Diane♥&hea..]

Wow! This poem is deep. I felt the pain you were feeling. I have been there before. It is hard to go through. It hurts deeply. I hope you feel better with time. Excellent. I really loved it!

[Lilly]

I feel the absolute pain and heartache of this. You have conveyed the emotions well and I like the formatting you chose for this piece.