Your betrayal was a knife wrapped in velvet
I bled before I even felt it

I became a stranger in my own reflection
The moment I lost your affection

Your words were daggers dressed as roses
I bled while admiring their poses

My love story ended mid-sentence
With a period you placed without repentance

The hourglass of our love has run dry
Every grain of sand is a reason to cry

My tears have written an autobiography
Of a love that was its own catastrophe

I became the silence you never noticed
The absence that your busy life missed

I am the door you closed without looking back
Standing ajar on a lonely track

My heartstrings play a melody of grief
A concert for an audience of disbelief

I stitch my heart with threads of regret
A patchwork of moments I cannot forget

The window watches me pace across the floor
Retracing the steps to a locked door

My love was an ocean, yours was a shore
Always pulling back, always wanting more

The bench in the park where we used to sit
Now holds the ghost of us, bit by bit

The echo of your footsteps fading down the hall
Is the loneliest symphony of all

I am a jar of tears on a dusty shelf
A relic of the love I lost to you and myself

You broke the dam that held my tears at bay
Now they flood every corner of my day

Like snow melting on warm and careless ground
My devotion vanished without a sound

I am the shadow of the person I was before
A silhouette standing outside your door

I water dead flowers hoping they will bloom
The way I wait for you in an empty room

I planted hope in the garden of goodbye
But nothing grows where the roots have died

My heart is a bird that forgot how to fly
Clipped by the wings of your final goodbye

The mirror cracked the day you walked away
And seven years of bad luck chose to stay

The swing in the backyard sways for no one now
An empty seat beneath a weeping bough

The ink of my sorrow stains every blank page
Writing the story of love turned to rage

I held my breath waiting for your return
Now my lungs are hollow, my chest still burns

The night sky weeps through its clouded veil
Mourning a love that was destined to fail

You were my gravity and now I float away
Weightless in a world that has nothing to say

I sold my peace for a handful of your lies
Now I am bankrupt beneath these crying skies

The sunflower droops when the sun disappears
Just as I wilt beneath the weight of years

The lock you broke was not on a door
It was the heart I swore I would guard forevermore

You scattered my trust like petals in the wind
Each one a promise you carelessly thinned

I trace the outline of your face in the dark
A blind artist painting from a broken heart

Like a prisoner freed with nowhere to go
I am released from love but still feel its blow

I am the unfinished bridge over troubled water
Built for a crossing that gets no shorter

The curtains sway but no one enters the room
Just the ghost of a love that left too soon

The map of our journey leads to a dead end
Where lovers part and broken roads won't mend

Like an old photograph left out in the rain
Our memories dissolve into a beautiful stain

Like a compass spinning in a magnetic storm
My heart lost direction in your changing form

I am the tide that keeps returning to shore
Searching for what the ocean swallowed before

I keep dialing a number that no longer exists
Hoping your voice might echo through the mist

I drank from the cup of your sweet deception
And woke with the hangover of broken affection

Your absence echoes louder than your presence ever did
A thunderous silence I cannot get rid

Your memory is a thorn in the garden of my mind
The more I try to pull it, the deeper I find

I carved your name into the bark of my being
Now every growth ring carries the pain of seeing

I am the footnote in your chapter of mistakes
A lesson learned from someone else's heartbreaks

Like a sandstorm erasing footprints from the ground
You erased yourself without making a sound

Like rain on a desert that evaporates on touch
Your love promised everything but gave not much

The streetlight outside my window flickers and fades
Just like the promises that your love made