It seems the more I try to put thoughts of you out of my mind the more stuck in my head our memories become. You were the only woman I ever completely trusted. I still find it hard to believe that someone I had such faith and belief in could hurt me the way you did. R.Y.
There is that tree
Where I carved your name
Where the happiest place
Now causes pain.
“I love you” you said
Got used to those words
Now echoes that ricochet
Still in my head.
From “Memories of You”
by Kerry from New Zealand
When you said you loved me, I didn’t realize it came with the disclaimer “unless my ex wants to get back together”. She’ll break your heart & is just using you. When she throws you aside, I won’t be waiting for you with open arms. I could never trust you again like I once did. D.K.
You left me Boundaries of Pain,
Capacious as the Sea,
Between Eternity and Time,
Your Consciousness and me.
From “You Left Me” by Emily Dickinson
Thoughts of you don’t fill my mind constantly anymore, but I still think of you often. I wonder what you’re doing, how you are and if you’re happy. In spite of how things ended up between us you’re forever special to me. I’ll always hold what we shared in great reverence. J.W.
If years from now I see you somewhere,
I will look at you and smile.
I will remember all the good times
we had together.
Unknown
You knew cheating was an unforgivable act to me. So what did you expect when you admitted in counseling you had an affair? I found a lawyer that day and filed for divorce. I always told you I would! Why didn’t you believe me? What’s broken can’t be mended. T.D.
The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow,
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.In secret we met,
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.
From “When We Two Parted” by
“Lord Byron”, George Gordon Byron
I think I’ll make it. No longer am I just bones and am gaining weight after barely eating for months. I’m exercising and hanging out with friends again. Once in a while I even remember something we shared and smile. Will I ever love again? Only time will tell. S.B.
Learn to appreciate the rainbow
after cursing the rain.
It’s just like loving again
after experiencing the pain.
Unknown
The world contains less color, food has less taste and life lacks meaning without you. My mind wants to hate you for leaving; for hurting me so badly, but the love I have for you in my heart will never let it happen. It feels like my soul is slowly starving to death without you. C.C.
…Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes
Lost every day, no map to follow
Entire days, weeks, a blur
Flickers of light, in the darkness,
Only to be enveloped in shadows once more…
Peter Winstanley
Eventually I got past the grief of you leaving me behind. For the longest time I couldn’t image being with anyone else. Our ending ruined my belief that love conquers all. Now my heart knows what a fragile and delicate state of being loving and being loved back truly is. H.B.
If only you could see the tears
In the world you left behind.
If only you could heal my heart
Just one more time.
Even when I close my eyes
There is an image of your face.
And Once again I come to realize
You are a loss I can’t replace.
From the song
“Why Did You Leave Me”
by Westlife
You being gone is difficult every day, but most challenging on holidays. When others are celebrating as couples and families, I only want to be alone. That we had such great times throws memory like salt into an unhealed wound. Oh, how I miss you my darling. S.L.
Taken from “The Loss of Love” by Countee Cullen
All through an empty place I go,
And find her not in any room;
The candles and the lamps I light
Go down before a wind of gloom.
Thick-spraddled lies the dust about,
A fit, sad place to write her name
Or draw her face the way she looked
That legendary night she came.
I have loved you for years but never made my feelings known to you. The courage to speak what was in my heart never came. You married another man and my feeling for you must remain forever a secret. My sad destiny is the heartbreak of loving you from a distance. C.L.
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,
that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he
by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones,
why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze
stirred by the sighs of her veils,
why everyone did not go mad
with the movements of her braid,
the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.
He had not missed a single one of her gestures,
not one of the indications of her character,
but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Keepsake boxes of various sizes and types hold sweet memories of when we were together. Cards, letters, notes, used tickets and little souvenirs of all kinds are cherished mementos of our ‘once upon a time’. Keeping it all allows me to still hold on to a little piece of you. D.W.
Now you’re
just somebody
I used to know.
Gotye
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