Deep down, I think I always knew—
You were never the one I'd walk beside
When our hair turned silver and the nights grew long.
They warned me about the slow burn of cigarettes,
The drowning pull of whiskey,
The way pills could fracture your soul.
I believed them in all the ways that mattered—
But no one warned me about *you*.
No one told me that love could carve scars
Deeper than any needle,
That losing you would split me open
In ways I couldn't stitch back together.
I never knew that your silence
Would echo louder than your laughter once did.
I think deep down I saw the cracks,
The way your hands shook when you held me,
The way your gaze wavered,
Like you were already looking for the door.
But I wanted to believe—
Believe in a future that shimmered just out of reach,
In your love that felt like warmth
On a day too cold to last.
I wanted to feel *wanted*,
To be held by someone whose touch wasn't
Tethered by blood or bound by old promises.
I wanted to believe
That love could grow in the places where we stood,
Even though the ground was already giving way.
We all long for things
We were never meant to keep,
But I'm glad we were something once.
Your love, though brief, was enough
To teach me what my heart could bear.
And now, as your shadow fades from my life,
I feel the light returning—
Not the light of you,
But the light of myself, unbroken,
Stronger than before,
Finally free.
—MistakenGenius
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Surviving Heartbreak
PoetryA lover girl who got her heart broken one too many times and now ended up writing poetry about it
