Tonight I Am Alone With My Tears

Tonight I am alone with my tears as I recall the memory of your handsome face staring at me with a sadness which broke my heart when you told me our love was over. Tonight I am alone with my tears when you said there is someone else and her name appears next to yours on the joint checking account and who is clinging onto your arm as I once did. Tonight I am alone with my tears feeling sorry for myself because you are not here to share the warmth we once shared and the laughter over silly little things which only a couple in love would understand together. Tonight I am alone with my tears feeling anguish over your cruelty and loathing the woman who stole your heart and broke mine as if a porcelain plate dropped into many pieces and impossible to repair. Tonight I am alone with my tears trying to pick myself up feeling as if a rag doll tossed aside and forlorn because no one is here to hug me and whisper sweet words of love into my ear. Tonight I am alone with my tears as sorrow becomes my partner in a grief so deep that the hole I have dug reaches the bowels of earth in which there is no escape and my screams are no longer heard. (For "The Promise Poetry Contest" by Silent One) May 29, 2020