Ode to Love Lost

Pain,

Ten years you have been gone and you still linger;

Heartache,

You died for me and I can't stop thinking it was my fault;

Tears,

Crying every night knowing you could have lived longer;

A curse,

One that you left when you promised your love to me;

Forever broken,

No longer able to keep a man in my heart for the hurt is too extreme;

A promise,

That I made that you would hold my first son's name;

Crushing weight,

That my heart has in your absence;

Hallow,

Is the way I feel when I try to heal;

Failure,

To love others and to move on from the hole you left when you breathed your last;

Relief,

Will come the day I could see you again with the family I made on my own;

Alone,

Is what I'll always be because you left me with a hallow shell;

Pain,

That I will never move on again.