Broken Heart

I wrote this last spring.

I don't know how to put
a broken heart on paper.
Perhaps if I could see it
I could put it back together.

The shattered pieces of my heart
all still bear your name.
Though it is broken
it still belongs to you.

Why can't I heal my broken heart?
Don't I hold the splinters?
But the memories keep me broken.
I can't just forget.

I see your face
in a passing stranger.
I hear your voice
when I am all alone.

Loving you has changed me.
I can't be the same.
My heart still remembers.
I can't erase your name.

I can't change your heart.
Its harder than changing mine.
But I don't want to say Goodbye
and walk away.

Author's Note

I am not sure how much sense this makes, but whatever.

Reviews

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on your great winning poem. Well Done!

[Lizanne]

Good work. You must have lived it to be able to so fluently describe it.

[Martina]

Loved this! Kinda is strange but i dont care!!!!!!!!!!! Love it

[Adela Muresan]

'I see your face
in a passing stranger.
I hear your voice
when I am all alone.'

I can REEEALLY relate to this.
Anywayz you have described the bitterness of the loss of your loved one, in a very touching and 'elegant' manor.

Great write.

A.M.

[Lexy]

just so you know (in regards to your note) I think it makes a lot of sense.

[Sarah]

I think it makes sense! It does a great job of capturing the heart-break and loneliness that is felt after the end of a relationship, and the desire to make ourselves feel better in anyway possible - going as far as seeing faces of our loved ones on complete strangers! The first stanza is undoubtedly my favorite and I love the almost-rhyme of "paper" and "together" XD (I can't help it - I hear rhymes everywhere O___O!) Either way, it flows well & was an original piece. Great job!

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

Nicely done.... I like the line "Don't I hold the splinters" represents to me the pain of a broken heart shattered. Thank you for sharing. Debileah