Art – Empty – Reese Lansman

Heartbreak

Thought out letters crumble like sand sifting through my crescent engraved hand the world sounds silent, like a still heart why, oh why, have you torn my world apart?

My lips taste of nothing but salt for these tears will never halt I hoped this would all be fixed by light but all you said to me was “goodnight”

Your smell still lingers on our sheets I wonder if I’ll ever see you in the streets but you broke my heart, left it in pain I’m guessing you still don’t care, as you have nothing to gain

Will you move on from us? From what we shared? I shiver restlessly, knowing we will never be repaired your skin soft as silk ghosts my cheek the world in the distance has turned gray, and bleak

I may never heal from seeing the bed empty as I wake for you would always stay beside me until dreams shake now I know that is no more and yet, I’ll spend my sleepless nights waiting for you at the door

Alyssa Greco, 11

rhymed verse