Category Archives: Shattered Heart

No One Can Fix It

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Was I only a another conquest? Did you love me at all? Or was I only what you desired that once obtained lost its appeal? In a day you went from saying you couldn’t live without me to breaking up with me for someone else. I hate myself for letting you treat me this way. R.W.

My heart…
You tore it.
Piece by piece you shredded it.
And no one can fix it.
No one wants to.
Because they look at what you made me.
A girl with permanent tears painted on her face.
I am now just an empty void.
There is no desire to want to love again.
Unknown

I’m Just As Responsible

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To become such a smooth and successful liar it took you lots of practice. For a lie to happen it takes one to say it and another to believe it.  As much as I blame you, I blame myself more for trusting you. If I hold a snake and get bite I’m just as responsible as the snake. A.G.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart;
of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants.
The way it stops and starts.
Edgar Allan Poe

A Little More Each Day

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Hurt flows from inside out. I feel pain radiating from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I never knew love could ache so horribly until you said “I don’t love you anymore”. I’ve tried everything but nothing relieves my suffering. I die a little more each day! R.B.

What can I do,
lost as I am in the wind
and lightning that surrounds you.
What can I do,
now that my tears
are rising toward the sky
only to fall back
into the sea again.
What can I do,
now that this page is wet;
now that this pen is empty.
From “Borrowed Love Poems” by John Lou

Thrown In All Directions

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Why? Why did you stop loving me? Was it something I did? Something I didn’t do? One day you loved me and the next you didn’t. All of a sudden you did not want to kiss me, hold me or make love to me. I am shattered into a thousand pieces thrown in all directions. H.S.

I am bleeding, the cut is deep, and I cannot stop the flow.
The wound is deep within my heart.
I have no way of stopping the never-ending,
Flow of pain and torment,
That takes me captive,
Like a fast-moving river.
My heart lies shattered as broken glass,
Fragmented in a million pieces,
Taken from “Forsaken, a Poem”
by writer known only as Hyphehbird

With Silence and Tears

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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

Slowly Starving to Death

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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

Black is Now My Shadow

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You cheated on me with my best friend! Together you shattered me, broke my heart, crushed my soul and destroyed my ability to trust. I thought “you” were the “one” and she was “my best friend forever”. How could you?! I loved you both and what you did is unforgivable! A.P.


You throw me aside like a piece of garbage.
You destroyed my heart, my soul.
You left me only a piece of emotion.
You don’t notice me though I walk right past.
Black is now my shadow, my face and my shade.
I am and forever an outcast, a castaway.
Taken from Cast Away by Tayla

Why?

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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.

Every Other Part

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You could have told me or at least called. A hand written note would have had some meaning. An email would shown a little respect and caring. But you sent a text message to break up with me! Twenty three words on my phone and nothing more. I deserve better! T.M.

I don’t know why
they call it heartbreak.
It feels like every other part
of my body is broken too.
Missy Altijd

Never Able to Trust Again

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Reading the paper with your engagement ring on my finger, I was shocked to find a wedding announcement with your name and not mine! What a horrible way to find out you didn’t want me. It will take a long time to heal but I’ll never be able trust again like I did you. A.F.

The people
Who hurt you the most
Are the ones
Who swore most
they never would!
Unknown