Yesterday is Gone

I buried you today.

I said goodbye to the hopes of yesterday.

Numb is what I feel because you’ll never be real.

Too many years have gone by, and I’m too dead to cry.

A hope of flesh and bone swaddled in my arms.

Instead, you’re a fleeting image in my head.

I prayed for sunshine, but I got rain.

The tears don’t matter, but they still fall.

I’m only half a heart after all.

Maybe one day the desire for you won’t haunt me anymore.

As I spread the ashes of my broken dreams on the ground.

Lost but never found.

It’s time to stop thinking about yesterday.