Author's Note: This poem was a bit of an experiment, based on the idea that love is giving someone the power to destroy you and trusting them not to do it. Each stanza was meant to have been written at a different time, so keep that in mind as you read. I hope you enjoy it!
Our anniversary, four years celebrated
I'm so, so proud of us, proud of this life we've created
I love you with all of my heart and soul
You have filled a void, a hole
Tonight maybe you'll ask for my hand
You'll want to get married, to lengthen our plans
I am yours and yours only
Remember, baby, that's all I want to be
Nothing, I'm empty, I'm blank inside
You said you didn't love me and I felt like I died
Like you pumped me full of Novocain
Sent a shot straight into my brain
Over, you said, we're done
But I thought we had just begun
I can't feel, I can't breathe, I can't think
I'm going to fall into the ocean and just let myself sink
They told me I'm delusional today
Because I felt again, heard you in my brain
But I haven't talked to you in a month
I miss you so much but you said we're done
When I move I feel your hands against my hips
Sometimes I can even taste you on my lips
These are the moments I now simply crave
Because of your memory, I am your slave
Three months since you left, they said
Three months since you left me for dead
Skeleton man, come back to me
Come out, come out, don't you see my need?
I'm losing my mind, my mind
It'll be gone, gone where i can't find
The pink walls here, the antiseptic smell
They taunt me about the life we could've held
Time is so slow so cruel
But it's not time that made me the fool
A year has passed they say I'm fine
But you destroyed me destroyed my mind
You moved on said I'd be ok
You're happy without me but you made me insane
I'm going home at last tomorrow
But you're my home so it's you I'll follow
Two years at last since you broke my heart
Guess I finally found a way to get a new start
Happiness found me, maybe I stopped hiding
I'm better now, that's why I'm writing
Thank you for tearing my world down
For getting me sent away, for letting me drown
Maybe you weren't right, but I will forgive
Because now, because of you, I have a new life to live