You'Ve Broken Me

you've broken me in ways I can't recount unloved, uncherished, and unsought am I the anguish of my soul I can't surmount the pounding of my heart an echoed, "Why?" You were possessed, you were obsessed with me the sun would not go down till we had met you claimed my eyes bewitched in fantasy and dreams of me would leave you in a sweat you said I was the best of women found my beauty ravished sweetly every thought no one like me above or on this ground for such as I you had sincerely sought the years unraveled and I lost my glow no longer did my form desire ignite the love of someone else you came to know and so descended hope to endless night you took away from me my fondest dreams I came to feel much like some loathsome trash my tears came not in droplets but in streams as self esteem then crumbled with a crash you did not love my soul, you did not see my true identity, you did not love and so I tried to be other than me my eagle heart I veiled to be your dove and though I try so hard, it is in vain no word, no smile, no touch can love awake I daily try to live with searing pain my heart and soul for you I must forsake you've broken me in ways I can't express but life goes on and on, and I survive now and again I long for love's caress so that once more my heart can come alive Eileen Manassian