The World Collapsed

by Sarah Grubbs
(Chaplin, Kentucky)

Love...
The one thing I gave,
He gave it back.
But the world collapsed around us and he was gone.
And my heart tore,
I watched the shreds fall to the ground,
My tears fell and caused a flood,
His warmth left, replaced by cold.
Bitter, biting, and deadening cold.
And that's all I feel,
The cold where I'm supposed to be warm.
I shiver and freeze,
I just want to shut my eyes and let the cold take me away.
I just want this pain to be gone,
The pain of yearning for him back.
The pain of wanting that shoulder to cry on, that smile to see, that laugh to love.
My heart is nothing anymore
Just a black hole.
Dark, forsaken, and bare.
That's where I end.
That's all I need to say.....





The world collapsed.