In Your Heart, Shall Fade

You showed me your dreams
And I ate every one
I turned the meadows to fields of ash
Where you would soon be undone.

You showed me the truth
And I told you a sweet lie.
I swallowed your fear and embraced
a darkness no mask could hide.

And you followed me to death,
Where I ran from the light.
I took you to the valley of nightmares
Where you were too weak to fight.

Now I have words but no song,
And the night has grown forever long.
With regret that I have never known,
In this heart,
A void has grown.

Reviews

[J.A]

It seems like the speaker can never be with the "you" in this poem. I love how the speaker is the one who told "a sweet lie", and who "ran from the light". Most of the time, I read poetry where the speaker is hurt. But this poem is about the speaker hurting the other, and growing to regret it. Great poem.

[TaraNicole]

Wow..imagery delivered quite vividly. It feels so much like a heart thats not void but instead broken.