Best friend in Memory

Poem after break up

Best friends in high school.

I trusted you so much,

but my darling I was such a fool.

I got so blinded by your touch.

You asked me to be just yours,

and in a wink I said yes.

My first and innocent love.

I got lost in your caress. 

I'd tell you everything, 

you were my one and only. 

I lived for your good morning texts, 

and sent all myself back with them.  

You broke my heart,  

and I left YOU, 

yet you still aren't gone.

For the memory of you, babe

Lives on and on and on. 

In little remarks by friends, 

in pictures and notes and tears.

In the holding hands on couples, 

as I remember once having you near. 

In looking at those big brown eyes, 

that gentle, loving stare. 

Of telling you, yet being so unsure, 

'I never want to see you again'. 

And I swear your smell follows

me, wherever I may go.

That sweet, alluring smell,

of your unique cologne.

And I can bet I've heard you laugh,

and seen your crooked smile,

on the faces of strangers,

and I'm left dumbfounded for a while.

Eating your favorite chocolate

or passing places we've gone

gosh handsome... 

the memory of my first love, 

my best friend won't leave me alone

Is it the memory of love?

or the feeling of loss that haunts?

This broken heart needs fixing,

torn apart by false promise.

I know I can do better,

you hurt me far too much.

But for now I'm left with the ghost of you,

I'm left missing half of myself. 

      

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