What am I to do?

You tell me to get over you,

You say to do it now.

But I don’t think you understand

I really don’t know how.

You tell me,

“Throw your feelings to the wind!”

I ask you ma’am,

“Where do I begin?”

How does one just drop a feeling?

And send it on its way?

Is there a secret formula

To make them go today?

A mind just can’t forget a thing,

Especially a thing like you.

So I ask a question, and listen well,

What am I to do?

Reviews

[Andy Lewis]

As a man that has went through the loss of what I believe to
be my one true love(my wife...well exwife) I know all to
well how the feeling is to not be able to "let go".....I still think of
her all the time....this really spoke to me thank you so much for
Sharing ..

[Charlotte Frey]

You have a lovely pace and it clearly is a personal poem (which I can sympathise with as I have recently lost several loved ones - a break up and a family death) and your rhyme scheme works well.
It is, however, very telling and abstract/vague.
We all understand these feelings, and I think the dialogue you have incorporated works very well.
Maybe to improve it, use more concrete detail, describe objects and places that give off a sad, unloved atmosphere that we can relate to. Maybe items that the loved one has left behind, etc. Or the places they used to go together.
I do like the use of questions but they feel slightly overused for such a short piece.
(Personally I like abstract pieces more, so I really like this piece, but alas most people are against abstract telling pieces)