Getting Over It Poem by vanessa Geriks

With so much time passing,
Year, months, hours gone by,
I wonder why it doesn’t hurt less,
Why sometimes I still cry.

Dropped like a ball,
And kicked like a rock,
How can I still care?
Why am I still in shock?

The smell of your skin,
Still lingers in my nose,
I try not to flinch when you walk by,
I wonder if it shows.

Does anyone ever ‘get over it’,
Or are we all just making it through,
Is forgetting you completely,
Even the right thing to do?

Is moving on the answer,
To the aching in my heart,
Maybe if I clench it harder,
I won’t fall apart.

You got the best of me,
I let you in too fast,
And now what’s left to show for it,
But broken memories of the past.

I almost have to laugh,
When I think of how stupid I was,
Swearing you’d never leave me,
I guess that’s what love does.

Putting you into a state of bliss,
Long conversations on the phone,
Next thing you know,
You’re left all alone.

Why is it so cruel?
Why does it make you fall so hard?
It tells you lies,
And makes you let down your guard.

You swear it’ll never happen,
Then it does and you can’t see it,
When you put all of your heart in,
I guess that’s what you get.

Why is there no rule book?
That’s tells you how not to fall,
Or warns you when to walk away,
When love might throw a curve ball.

I guess we write our own ‘book’,
A page added with every mistake,
The words are written with our tears,
A lesson learned with each re-take.

The pain felt at first,
Never really gets less,
You just learn how to deal,
And how to pick up your own mess.

Heart ache and heart break,
Make life worth living for,
Because every little bit of pain,
Makes happiness mean so much more.