Heartbreak

April 30, 2016 at 12:45 AM

Heartbreak doesn’t taste so good

It tastes like a gulp of whiskey

The burning sensation traveling down your throat,

Creating a furnace within your lungs

Sometimes the heat makes it too hard to breathe

Heartbreak tastes like regret

As you think of the words he used to say

Words like “I love you” start to crawl back up your throat

Making you choke and wishing it all could end

It leaves your stomach empty

Even the butterflies have been dead for far too long,

Their bodies have now turned to dust

Heartbreak feels like swallowing knives,

Engraving his name on your tongue

And ever since, his name is the only word you know

Sometimes it feels like nothing

Because the hands that once held onto you so tight,

Was the only place you felt whole

Those hands moved to your chest

Teasing you

But instead he rips out your heart

Veins and all

And there is nothing

And he has made you into nothing

Your heart can be found on the top shelf in his closet

Safe from the monsters under the bed

But not the one on top

Who took your heart

And keeps watch

Night after night

So you are unable to give it to another

Heartbreak feels like nothing and something

All at the same time

Heartbreak looks a lot like you

And I should have known

If there were a few things I could say to you

They would be:

You two look beautiful together

I am so proud of you

And I hope he treats you well

And can you leave my heart on the porch?

-(hms)