What happened to love?

POSTED IN contemporary poetry August 14, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What happened to love?

You tore my heart
into a million pieces
with your anger

your fear

my fragile existence
a flotsam of tissue
scattered to the wind

I snatch at the pieces
with unseeing eyes
and wonder

what happened to love?

Slowly,
I pull myself together
so frayed and worn

nothing seems to fit
anymore

you say you are sorry
and I forgive

it was my fault after all

I guess we start over
yet I do wonder …

How many times
must
I fall?

 

 

 

 

Amanda Edwards