Sad Love Poem ~
I Can't
by Evan Grotevant

I can’t move on, can’t bounce back.
All I want to do is throw my arms around you and squeeze the pain out of you.
Oh, those were the days.
The days when my word meant something, the days when we weren’t both cheaters.
The days when we were inseparable.

Where did they go?
They went up in smoke, in the smoke of the toke that broke your heart.
In the lies we were trying to devise just to keep the other on level ground.
Now I sit sifting through the ashes, salvaging all I can of you that lies all around.

I can’t walk, let alone run from you, from this, or your sweet, soft kiss.
I will long for it, I find myself waking in the night reaching out in vain for it.

For you.

What we had was rare, like killing a unicorn with a bomb.
It was what happens when Saint Elmo’s Fire shines emerald green light on the deck of a ship.
On that ship is a man and he is coming home for his love.
Where does that leave me?
I reach out into the dark with open eyes that fail to see.
Just like how I failed to be even far from perfect and I wished I could have made you oh so happy.

What is this love that thrashes one’s soul to the center?
That makes all manner of vulnerability open to enter?
Was it real love even if it couldn’t bear it out even to the edge of doom?
All these thoughts swarm my mind in t
his lonely room or is it my tomb?

written by: Evan Grotevant
copyright (c) 2009  Evan Grotevant