Love Poem: Broken Bleeding Heart Cured
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Written by: Victor Buhagiar

Broken Bleeding Heart Cured

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”  ? Edgar Allan Poe


My heart is shattered in sadness,
Like a jigsaw with missing pieces.
I know my soul is irrevocably lost.
Oh, how I envy those
who casually forgive and forget,
and pass to pastures new.

But I am not like that.
I cannot eradicate my feeble feelings.
     Like the mists of a dark clouded dawn
     they linger all day long.
I shed no tears; I did not smile.
I was like a cold forlorn statue where
city doves dirty and rest.
Alas there was no rest for me.

Gloom, void and sadness
engulf me like a dark putrid lake.
     She came back, tear eyed.
     I could not forget that she came back.
Why did she leave?
I never abused her, never hit her,
never looked at another
for I loved only her.
And she came back.

Angry, I felt the injustice of it all.
I slammed the door on her once and forever.
     Melancholy enveloped me like winter’s gloom.
     Inexplicably I decided to search for her.
     She was not to be found.
So why cannot I forgive myself?
Why cannot I forget her?
Why must I live forever in dark despair?

Until I saw her in a church.
Tears fell down her sweet smooth face.
I knelt down near her.
     Father, forgive our trespasses
     As we forgive others.
I turned her tearful face
And gave her a long kiss on her hot lips.