Can't Let You Go

When I knelt to gather

The pieces of my shattered heart

I found that some of them 

Were missing

Because you had taken them 

With you when you rode away.

You tugged on my heartstrings

But then ripped them out

Leaving me bleeding

And I hate that I can’t let you go.

My heart is a locked box

And I gave you the key

But you threw it away.

My heart is a rose, fragile

But you plucked all the petals

Leaving nothing but thorns

And I hate that I can’t let you go.

My heart is a diamond

That you could have set in a ring

But you threw it into the gutter

And I hate that I can’t let you go.

You stole my heart from me

Like the thief you are

And I want it back so bad.

I should hate you

But I can’t

You betrayed me

But now I betray myself.

 

This poem is written from the point of view of a character of mine. Another character, someone she really cares about, betrayed her and she sent him away, but she hates that she still cares despite the betrayal and she just can’t let him go even though she wants to more than anything.