Tales of Bygone Lovers

The Moon

Once enthralled, it's now concluded

I've been mauled and I've been wounded

I thought we'd be something great

By you, I was captivated

As your beautiful soul emanated

Like nothing before, my emotions escalated

Everything I could give and was, I would have dedicated

But for the impossible, I'm not going to wait

You obviously weren't my fate

Now the moon has risen and the hour's late

All my dreams you did lacerate

The gaping lesions you did aggravate

Your fluctuations make me so frustrated

There's no going back, what we had is desecrated

Ridiculous how rapidly it disintegrated

And yet, these feelings can never be obliterated

From the world, I wish to be isolated

I refuse to be underrated

Not appreciated

Until it's over, not when I should be

You'd have realised my worth if you truly loved me

Now the agony is unremitting

Feel everything splitting, splitting

Tore myself free from this deluding cage

The surrounding smell of sage

Cleansing away your energies

Impossible to erase the memories

Remembering every first

Now feeling worse than when I was cursed

The scraps of my heart falling shred by shred

As I sit naked on my bed

Staring at the iridescent moon

All your words, I now impugn

Due to the cavernous hole you did hewn

Flood it through with moonlight

To eradicate the unfurling twilight

Of all-consuming numbness

Unwavering, uninterrupted glumness

The cold of night washing over me

Trying to fight every memory

Now there's no more guarantees

A soothing breeze

To combat the incoming tides of cries

They come in waves of rising size

Crashing onto the shores of my heart

As they break, breaking apart

Washing up the debris of my hopes

Under the silver light that envelopes

My body, racked with sobs

This pain can only dream to throb

It's difficult to breathe

And even harder not to seethe

With anger at your stupidity

How could you seriously think to leave me?

As if having both ways would be that easy

But you made your decision so, alas

I see my reflection in the glass

A spectral face reflecting moonlight

Deathly pale, ghostly white

All colour draining with each tear

Each tear a scream for our lost years

Hoping the moon could help to heal

I couldn't believe you were real

Let alone how you made me feel

Turned into such an ordeal

My anguish I'll now have to conceal

The illusion that my emotions, I can control

When all I want is to scream for the months you stole

You were too good to be true

But of course, I had no clue

I sincerely regret you

The moon overhead, hanging sad and blue

Are you gazing at the same moon too?

Hoping for stability

To strengthen the fragility

And fight the feeling of futility

I want back the tranquillity

I had when I was free

Back then I was so happy

Now drowning in misery

Currents of despair, dragging down violently

And so I sit here screaming silently

For fear of dreams of you in sleep

Crumpling inwards as I weep

All my happiness twisting out of tune

Feeling lost and marooned

In the lonely light of the moon