Heartbreak in All Forms
Heartbreak is more than just a lover.
It comes in many shapes and sizes.
Once from a favorite plate shattered in two.
Another of my feelings from a story on the news.
Yes, a love untethered is tragic as well.
Someone you knew, like the back of your hand,
Then strangers again.
The worst kind of heartbreak though
comes from the friends you thought you knew so well.
Years of secrets and embarrassing bonds as you grew up.
When they break your heart too,
Becoming friends with your enemies and wondering
Why I have to hold these memories,
I want to let go of them too and be mad at you
But all I feel is heartbreak.
The kind that lives underneath all the layers of what you think it is.
The heartbreak that prequels a grief of someone that is still here.
Journey of Tears
For the tears that carried themselves
to the curve of my chin.
Finding home on the sleeves of my shirt.
Windshield wipers to try and stop the
flood from filling the ground with tears.
My deepest desire to scoop them into the palms of my hands.
Placing them gently into the ocean,
because that is where flowing water belongs.
Giving permission to tears to sail away the pain to some other place.
While being embraced, now by the warming sun.
Changing forms as the ocean has many ways.
Asking to be gently laid on the beach's sandy toes.
Begging for forgiveness.