Eulogy to a wasted year

I pretended not to care

That you had moved on and I

Was stuck standing in this rut

This rut that we used to call a life together

You promised forever

Yet all I can see now is the empty boxes 

Stacked against the corner and the full ones

Full of your things and not mine

Never mind that we had a thousand memories

That you bagged and tossed in the trash

The shirts from our play and the ties from our dance

Tossed like a candy wrapper

Forget about the fact that I gave a year of myself 

Time that I thought was well spent, but well....

Yes! The one memory that was untarnished yet

The picture of our first date

As I clutched that silver lining to my chest

I smiled a little and decided if you could throw our life away,

Well I could laugh the pain away

Too bad it doesn't really work that way does it?