When we broke up, I could hardly breathe. Once I caught my breath, I didn’t want to eat. When food interested me again, I wanted to be alone. Eventually I was able to be with people again but they made me think of you. Those thoughts made it hard to breathe. S.J.
Emotions are wild horses.
It is not explanations that carry us forward,
but our will to go on.
Paulo Coelho
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
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
Why did you stop loving me? Did you wake up one day and not love me anymore, or did your affection slowly deteriorate? Maybe some people are meant to fall in love but not meant to be together. I hope one day someone loves me as much as I know I loved you. R.B.
The tears roll down my face,
It seems like you’re a stranger,
But even if that’s the case,
I struggle to control this anger.I told you what you meant to me,
If only I’d known the price I’d have to pay,
If only I’d made you understand, if only I’d made you see,
Then maybe you wouldn’t have turned and walked away.Now nothing will ever be the same,
It’s all so bitter now,
I wish I’d forget your name,
But I can’t help wondering…how?From the “The Stranger” by Jenni J.
How foolish I was to believe willing myself not to love you was something I could accomplish. All I did was end up hiding my feelings that eventually erupted and overcame me. I thought I was getting even with you for hurting me, but my denial ended up only hurting me more. P.S.
The walls we build around us
to keep sadness out
also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
There have been times I couldn’t imagine bearing another day of heartbreak living without you, but somehow I did. Moments have come when the weight of grief almost crushed me, but I survived. My love for you is both my misery and my redemption. B.G.
I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new
I thought about you yesterday and days before that too,
I think of you in silence I often speak your name
All I have are memories and your picture in a frame
Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part
God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart.
Anon
There’s a sick feeling in my stomach and a knot in my throat. My head throbs and I can’t eat. Falling asleep is impossible sometimes. We both screwed up and I’m deeply sorry for my part. Are you suffering without me as much as I am without you? Can we try again? L.C.
For all sad words
of tongue and pen,
the saddest are those
‘It might have been.’
John Greenleaf Whittier
Calling at 2am to say I still love you was a mistake. Truly sorry I bothered you. I’d had a few drinks and my guard was down because our anniversary was earlier this week. It’s been months and neither of us has moved on. Is there a message in that for us? D.S.
You were my everything;
Now you’re gone.
I don’t have the strength
To carry on.
I loved you so much;
You were all I had;
Now my whole world
Is depressing and sad.
I’d like to start feeling
Other than blue,
But you were my everything,
What can I do?
Taken from “You Were My Everything” by Joanna Fuchs
Saying goodbye to you is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. It took both of us to damage our love beyond repair. You’ve been in my life for so long it feels like a big piece of me is gone; one I can’t live without. I miss you so much. What have we done?! J.R.
I sit here in this place
So far from where I used to be.
Wondering, what happened?
How did this happen to me?
Remembering the days
Of times gone by.
I promised I wouldn’t do this
I said I wouldn’t cry.
I used to be so strong
Nothing could get in my way.
Now I am lost and forlorn
How did I get this way?
I Miss You.
“What Has Happened to Me” by an Author unknown
Why did you stop loving me? That’s the question with an elusive answer; the enigma lodged in my heart. Was I not good enough? Handsome enough? Kind enough? Fun enough? Rich enough? Caring enough? Smart enough? That haunting mystery is driving me crazy. D.S.
Every man
has his secret sorrows
which the world knows not;
and often times
we call a man cold
when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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