Your Choice

It crushed my heart to hear That you were no longer and would never be mine It seared my soul to see and know That you were with her and I was once more—alone I still remember promises And now they bring me searing pain Unlike the times my whole being swelled with joy Now I only further deflate It ripped me to pieces to see My place beside you filled with another My heart is wrung in despair by the thought That I was rejected—and now I’m replaced As I sit on the sidelines and cry silently I wish you would shed one tear for me Or promise to never forget Or feel a tinge of regret But you don’t You don’t care You have the choice of letting me go Or throwing me out And acting like I don’t exist And what hurts me more than anything is When faced with this choice You do not blink With no hesitation You take it. Do you know you're slowly killing me? Sliding a blade into the tender flesh of feelings? Another pang of pain courses through me knowing that, of course, you do. Now I am gone.