A Funeral for Love

I wrote this the day my partner of 7 years told me he no longer loved me.

How do I mourn what isn't dead?

The space beside me in the bed

The toothbrush where there once were two

Eyes like oceans, the smell of you

How do I bury what I can't kill?

The flame that burns inside me still

The passion that you cannot grasp

Is now my constant, aching rasp

How do I live as half of me?

We intertwined so helplessly

This woven life and woven heart

Will be destroyed when pulled apart

How can beginning come from end?

How can soulmate become friend?

The dream that has become unfurled

Was you and me, against the world

Reviews

[sette]

i like the poem it explores love and pain thoroughly and how being human we are fallible to love and hate at the same time but only one question stays, how can one forget? i like the use of symbolism in the poem especially how one tries to remember everything which is not there makes the poem more meaningful in nature.