The stark realization
that what I thought
was mine only,
no longer
was.

The heart pounding
heart breaking
soul aching
evidence of
fermented
love

Can I ever trust again
love another as I
loved you
can I?

Death breathes on me
crushing my heart
suffocating me
stabbing me
wounding
bleeding
draining
me of
life

Then the realization
of the wasted years
on a pitiful love
that was so
one sided
unreal
tears
flow

Why should I feel
such pain over
a love that
was never
really
mine?

You aren't worth
bleeding for
wasting my
days away
mourning
over a
never was
love

You were never committed
to our relationship
never realized the
sweetness of a
trusting
caring
love

Now you are paying the price
of infidelity with the
other woman demanding
self centered being
just as you were
unsatisfied with
me, your first
and only
true
love

You are tasting
the bitterness
of a cheating
once was love
that was not
committed to
anything
but self
only

Shall I pity you
with your self
inflicted
wounds?

Or drink the sweet
cup of revenge
reveling in
your reap
of lost
love

Can
I?

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