Better before you

You read me poetry

Gave me the words I wanted to hear

You came when I was lost

and helped me to find myself

But in a blink of an eye

You left me stranded in middle of nowhere

The loneliness was there even before you came

but it was not this painful

The darkness was there

but it was not this blinding

I was already hurt

but not this fatally

My heart was broken

but not into this many pieces

You have left me more lost and broken than ever

Yet each small piece of my broken self

await eagerly

Hoping that you would come again

I wait for the words that you promised

I yearn to hear the untold poems

I’m lost but still waiting

 

© Vindhya Colombage

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