What Happened To The Photograph Your Boyfriend Took (An Hourglass Poem)
I’m staring at this picture in my hands, with many friends, but your face is all I see
The picture used to be so beautiful to me, but now the colors hurt my eyes
You took away my pride when you left, and you damaged a beautiful thing
The photo which I used to love, seems to have lost its meaning
And there is nothing you can do or say to redeem
What you went and took away, for this
Was all I had, from time to time
To look and see you smile
When you weren’t there
And now that you
Are gone again
I wonder too
Why I had
Come to
Love
You
Love
Is all
That I
Had then
But now that
You have left for good
I have to come to an agreement
A proclamation with myself, that you
Of all the people I love, will never be allowed
To touch, because, though I wish it, I know in my heart
You don’t love me, and I don’t love you, so I leave our photograph
Hidden between these pages for as long as it takes to heal the cuts and
I shall not look to your face, or even to your smile, for as long as needs to be
And maybe that way, you will find your place, and I will find mine too, where we
And we together, can live as life will have us, apart and forever remembered in love
The picture used to be so beautiful to me, but now the colors hurt my eyes
You took away my pride when you left, and you damaged a beautiful thing
The photo which I used to love, seems to have lost its meaning
And there is nothing you can do or say to redeem
What you went and took away, for this
Was all I had, from time to time
To look and see you smile
When you weren’t there
And now that you
Are gone again
I wonder too
Why I had
Come to
Love
You
Love
Is all
That I
Had then
But now that
You have left for good
I have to come to an agreement
A proclamation with myself, that you
Of all the people I love, will never be allowed
To touch, because, though I wish it, I know in my heart
You don’t love me, and I don’t love you, so I leave our photograph
Hidden between these pages for as long as it takes to heal the cuts and
I shall not look to your face, or even to your smile, for as long as needs to be
And maybe that way, you will find your place, and I will find mine too, where we
And we together, can live as life will have us, apart and forever remembered in love