Flecks of Sawdust

I keep forgetting to forget about you

your love tore my whole heart out

leaving it ground into flecks of sawdust

leavings strewn on the ground of my life.

I’m bleeding inside learning to survive

without your love and passion warming me

encircling me with what once was.

I tried to replace you but the new man

in my life looks like a clone of you

walks like you, talks like you, reminds me of you

raising the fear that he’ll soon be your twin.

How could you leave me, waking me up

from our warm bed to say goodbye as

you slung you suitcase over your shoulders

slammed the door and left me in shreds?

Tramping on to new horizons, you hike away

from me leaving my painful proclamation

“The last letters of lonesome spells me.”

#challenge @PainOfBeingForgotten #BleedingInside