Dedicated to the wonderful ladies who shared their troubling stories -of what caused them to fall out of love with their partners-men we need to listen closer to our loved ones!
A Broken Gemstone
Oh I had love
But instead of treating
It as the the single Gem
It was
I fractured it into
A million pieces
And squandered
Every sparkle
Until all I had
Left
Was myself
For like so many
Before me
I took the
Broken Path
I chased greed
for material things
I chased my own
Pleasure
And I shut
You out
I chased power
And got it
And lost all
Of you
In the process
For my work
For my golf
For my hobbies
For myself
I chased empty
Dreams
Never as I wandered
That broken road
did i realize
That without you
I was nothing
Not before
Nor after
It took a break
In that broken
road
To make me
Realize
That you are
The same
It is I who
Has changed
But the past
Rarely can be
Rebuilt
The path and its
Sorrow
Can no longer
Be changed
So the tears
Fall
Not for me
But for you
I have wronged
You
And lost you
I have destroyed
Your esquisite
Love for me
No glue will mend
the
Broken Gemstone
I pulled back
And dwelled deep
Into my tortured
Self
Shutting out
The one person
I should have
Loved
Above all else
And so it is
I wander
And search
For the love
I lost
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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