When Your Love Leaves

When your love leaves you,
And you cannot deal with it;
And you crumble inside,
With every resonating heart beat.

When you can no longer,
Listen to your favourite song,
Because the sting of the words,
Makes everything feel wrong;
You,
Obsessed over her,
She was your only beautiful obsession;
And you never failed to show her that,
With every articulate poem in succession.

When your love leaves you,
And you do not know why.

When on some days,
She'd just say;
I love you,
And you loved her too.
But something was wrong;
Something FELT wrong,
Her lips no longer curved,
The way they did before,
Her meandering lips were a straight line,
You could no longer obsess over;
The feeling was gone,
From her end,
But she didn't,
Let on.

At least,
Not in her words;
But you felt every flat I love you,
Like a thousand swords,
Piercing through your chest;
Moving right past the heart;
It prolonged the pain,
A swift death was mercy.

The agony of a thousand deaths,
Rushing past you,
Wounding at every step,
You could not bear the sight,
Of your love,
Slipping away,
Slowly,
Then all at once.

When your love leaves you,
The love that was never supposed to go;
You'll turn to doing things differently;
Don't fall asleep sleep watching your favourite show,
That's something she did,
And you want to run away from that,
Every action,
Is like a swinging bat,
A bat representing,
Your swaying heart,
A heart that beats,
A little differently now,
Slow then fast,
Then not at all.

When your love leaves you,
And you're breaking down,
Your world,
Is crumbling all around;
You no longer have the will,
To go do the things you loved,
Because she loved them too,
And she loves them still.

When you loved someone so much,
That you dedicated yourself,
All to them,
Your very existence was a glorified image,
Of their being;
In every poem,
And every paragraph you ever wrote,
You made sure that their presence was known,
In between the lines,
In the most obviously un-obvious places.

When that love leaves you,
And leaves the door open behind her;
Don't sit around and wallow,
Do not trip over your guilt,
Do not swallow;
For love,
Comes when it must,
It leaves,
Exactly when it must;
Love never stays for a while longer;
Even if it's the only love,
That can ever sate your hunger;
Because this love,
Is different,
This love,
Was true,
And just like that,
So will the next be,
And the next,
And the one after that.

When your love leaves you,
And you think you can never love again,
Look back at the times,
Look back at the heart breaks,
And the poems,
Look back and cherish,
The moments,
That love,
Left you with.