You left
and my heart is here
drowning
in your name…
All the reminders
of you
everywhere I look.

They say
that holding on
is difficult
but it’s not.
Letting go
is like tearing out
my own soul.

Tell me
how tears
become diamonds.
Tell me
how a broken heart
grows wings.
Tell me tomorrow
I’ll be breathing.
And tell me of birth
in the pain.

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