For those of us who need to heal from love's loss.
Healing to Frogive
Time heals all wounds is what they all say
but I never knew I could ever feel this way.
Hearts when broken are so difficult to mend.
So deeply invested, the loss of love rends.
I loved you so deeply then, did you even know?
Just what your love meant to me, why did you have to go?
You were cold to me the day you up and left.
It tore my heart and shattered me I was so bereft.
It didn't seem to matter what I said to you.
How I thought that you loved me with a love so true.
Now you are gone and I'm alone a solitary man.
Shattered and broken by your vicious hand.
Healing has not come easy, it's been so very long.
Since I could trust another, and sing a joyous song.
I had to come to realize that you died there in my heart.
At the very moment you left me and tore me all apart.
I forgive you now, I must let go, it pains me so to say.
I hold your memory in my broken heart, a sad price to pay.
But in forgiving I find peace from solitary woes.
I love you still, I always will, I guess that's how it goes.
I hold no longer malice towards you now a bride.
Held in someone else's arms, from this truth I can not hide.
You'll never return to me, you've chosen your own path.
I hold for you only tenderness, forgiveness quelled my jealous wrath.
I believe I read this one a long time ago. I always thougt it a kind of torch song yet by poem's end the poet has resolbved his dilemma. Highly emotive.