Sounds of your leaving

*THUD*

That’s the sound of my stomach dropping

For even immersed in my sadness

I see your name drift idly by as scarlet letters

Scarlet letters washed from our shore

*GULP*

The sound of my swallowed pride

As I run for a glimpse

Ran ever faster to keep you with me

Forgive me I wasn’t swift enough

Or is it that you were…

*SIGH*

The unashamed breath of my yearning

Can your sigh echo mine

So I may know you yearn as well

Or that you once did

*SNIFF*

I’m leaking broken goodbyes

Hand me a nail love

So I may fix them and make ME whole

Better yet hand me that torch love

So I may burn them away and make US whole

*HUMPH*

That’s my disdain for our humanity

Couldn’t we rise above our mutual stations?

Rise and capture our fairytale

I promise I almost gleamed it once

Our happily ever more

*SMASH*

I cast these gifts aground

What use are flowered baubles

If they didn’t lead to forever

Once catching our light

Now too bright to keep us together

*SNIFF*

Will the goodbyes never cease?

Once I’m done with one I attend to another

Goodbye words that held me here

Goodbye face that beheld my own

So many goodbyes

*HMMM*

My weak attempt at levity

I find none in your absence

There is no positivity

No consolation

Just absence

*BLERGH*

Disgust as I finish yet another episode

Of the same series

I shall christen it- Heartbreak

Episode- I hope I’m almost over you

*SILENCE*

My hastening steps as I disappear

Into a world where indifference is an option

And if I have no taste for it

Here I get to capture our fairytale

Hold our ‘and so they lived’

I never got our forever after

I tried to paint it once

I couldn’t get the colors bright enough

They would not flare as you did

But at least here

the sounds of your leaving are mute