Category Archives: Shattered Heart

When Someone Leaves

Posted by James Browning on

In giving my heart to you everything I am went with it… EVERYTHING. I gave you far too much. You left months ago but I am still not over the heartbreak. No longer do I feel like a complete person. There are pieces of me I fear I may never find again. Will I ever?  D.T.

When someone leaves you,
apart from missing them,
apart from the fact that the whole little world
you’ve created together collapses,
and that everything
you see or do reminds you of them,
the worst is the thought
that they tried you out and,
in the end,
the whole sum of parts
adds up to you got stamped
“REJECT” by the one you love.
Helen Fielding

Only a Rock

Posted by James Browning on

Why? That word permeates my thinking without a hint of an answer echoing back each time the question is thought. I gave my heart to you as surely as any was ever given. I thought you had given your heart to me and now have discovered it was only a rock. R.F.

Oh heart, oh heart, why must you beat?
Oh heart, oh heart, why must you weep?
Oh heart, oh heart, why must you hide?
Oh heart, oh heart, what lies inside?
Oh heart, oh heart, why must you cry?
Oh heart, oh heart, why do you despise?
Oh heart, oh heart, why are you weak?
Oh heart, oh heart, why can’t you speak?
Oh heart, oh heart, why must you burn?
Oh heart, oh heart, why can’t you learn?
Oh heart, oh heart, what went wrong?
Oh, heart, oh heart, can’t you be strong?
Oh heart, oh heart, why are you blue?
Oh heart, oh heart, where are you?
Whitney Albright

Heartstrings Open and Bared

Posted by James Browning on

Did you use me to get your old girlfriend back? It seems like I was only to make her jealous and regret leaving you. It must’ve worked because she’s back. All you told me was “I don’t want to see you more”. It’s wrong to play with someone’s heart the way you did with mine. F.T.

It’s becoming more evident
Much more obvious to me
I thought much more of you
Than you ever thought of me.

Was this my biggest mistake
Letting myself think you cared
Was I just your marionette
With heartstrings open and bared?

With me left here still thinking
What was false, what was true
So puzzling and so complex
I’m left to await another clue.

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“Heartstrings Played Upon”
by Hope

Until You Have Lost It

Posted by James Browning on

You slept with my best friend! Now I have to walk away not only from you, but also from my best bud since 10th grade. Two of the people I care about most violated my trust in the worst way. I am sad, angry, heart-broken and disappointed in you both beyond words! J.S.

You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is
until you have lost it.
Anonymous

Knowing My Heart is Safe

Posted by James Browning on

Cheating and lying aren’t relationship problems, they’re reasons to break up! There’s nothing to work out ’cause the damage can’t be repaired. I’ve found what you’re best at: LYING! I used to think I wasn’t good enough for you, but now know you don’t deserve me. J.J.

I’m not the silly romantic you think.
I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars.
I don’t want gemstones or gold.
I have those things already.
I want…a steady hand.
A kind soul.
I want to fall asleep, and wake,
knowing my heart is safe.
I want to love, and be loved.
Shana Abé

Who’s to Say…

Posted by James Browning on

Pourquoi avez-vous briser mon coeur? Pourquoi?!? I learned French to communicate better with you. I moved to your country so we could be together. I gave you every thing I had. Then after a month you walked away as if it was all nothing.  Did you ever really love me? D.R.

The knife cuts deeply to the core
The spirit bleeds forever more
A pain to last a whole life long
But who’s to say if this is wrong

We loved beside a diamond bay
That flashed the sun in bright of day
And glittered in the starry night
But who’s to say that it was right
Elizabeth Santos

Alone in Darkness

Posted by James Browning on

I have loved and lost before, but never felt like I do now after losing you. It feels like I’m moving in slow motion while everything races by me. Others don’t see my pain and go on like nothing has happened while I am stuck here wondering why you no longer love me. A.F.

Alone in the darkness,
Pain, sorrow and despair
Mourning a trust born of spirit
I can’t now repair

Searing pain so deeply
now carried deep within my heart
Betrayal done blatantly
yet hidden from the start.
From “Never Again” by Elle.rose7

Day By Day

Posted by James Browning on

Never will I understand how you could say you were in love with me & the next day say you never were. You chased me for weeks before I’d go out with you. We dated for months before I’d sleep with you. Then after one time you were gone. You sure fooled me and my heart. L.P.

I feel like no one cares
that I can’t continue living
this way.
Because the pain only intensifies
day by day,
and I know I will never have you again.
I wouldn’t wish the pain I’m in
on to my worst enemy.
No one should have to go through this.
So why am I?
Why didn’t you love me?
I gave you everything
And would have given you more.

With All The Little Pieces

Posted by James Browning on

We ignore each other and try to pretend the other person doesn’t exist, but deep down we know it wasn’t supposed to end like this. It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces. V.M.

 For Sale:
One Heart.
Horrible condition.
Will take anything for it.
PLEASE…
Just cut it out of my chest
and end this suffering.

If…

Posted by James Browning on

Without a word, you just left!  One day your phone was disconnected and your apartment was empty.  I thought you were in trouble, but a letter arrived two days later that said you had fallen in love with someone else and moved to Texas.  I hate you. F.R.

If I never met you,
I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you,
I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you,
I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did,
I do,
and
I will.