Break Up Poems | Examples

THE OTHER SAW IT BARE

“I’m repulsed by you,”
I say.
Maybe that will make me feel better.

Frozen, trying to remember memories
because you made me hate them.
Two sinners bonded,
creating a friendship
against everything in the commandment.

Oh, look what we became
One sinner gave it all.
The other… saw it bare.
The sinners?
Both right.
No wrong.

The sinners are separated.
One saw it as a joke.
One swore it all.
One never forgave.
Both fell.

The Devil laughed.

I saw.

No One Can

You'll no more know another man,

for if I can't have you, no one can

I't Still Hurts

Years have passed since i lost you 
It seemed like forever that I cried 
It still hurts when i think about you 
And how your love for me died 

I should have seen It coming 
With all the wrong that I done
I took your love for granted
Showing you I wasn't the one 

I can still see you drive away 
As clear today as back then 
And each time it never fails
It breaks my heart once again

I believe I would love you better
If I could love you once more
But i know i would again fail
Leaving your heart broken and sore

Words Cut Deep

I realize that I cut you deep
With this awful words I said
Those words now permanent
Living forever in your head

If you happen to forgive me
Those words stuck in your brain 
Will forever be playing over
As they continue causing pain

No matter how much I try
Those words will not erase 
You'll be reminded with pain
Every time you see my face 

How can you ever love me
After everything that i said 
We are victims of my words
And our love is now dead

Glass Promises

You wore truth like a tailored suit,
 Smiling sharp in the evening light—
 But lies stitched seams I couldn’t see,
 Till silence screamed through every night.
Your eyes, twin lanterns in the dark,
 Once held the stars I swore were real.
 But stars, it seems, can flicker cold,
 And hearts can kiss, yet never feel.
You spoke of “forever” in soft-spun lace,
 While weaving webs behind my back—
 Each word a thread of false embrace,
 Each step a crack along the track.
You touched another, lips untrue,
 With hands that once held all of me.
 Did guilt not whisper in your spine,
 Or did betrayal set you free?
I drowned in questions, bitter rain,
 Searching for reasons in your flame.
 But fire only knows to burn—
 It doesn’t care who speaks its name.
Now silence sits where love once lay,
 A ghost beside my coffee cup.
 And all your truths, once sweet as spring,
 Taste bitter in this shattered cup.
So take your vows and glass-made dreams—
 They break so easy, don’t they, dear?
 But know the cost of what you’ve lost:
 A love that held you—without fear.

Heartache I Cannot Rid

My heart is breaking in pieces
And being ripped out of me
This heartache is for the ones
I broke without showing mercy 

Living this life without you
The pain is all that I can take
And what makes it even worse
Is that I caused this heartbreak 

If I were able to go back in time 
And alter all that I did wrong
You be here in my arms tonight
Which is right were you belong

But I can't go back in time
And resolve the things I did
I'm stuck in reality with regret
With a heartache I cannot rid

Scorn By Love

Her eyes tell me all there is to know 
Her heart has grown tired and worn 
The idea of falling in love again
Plays back memories of being scorn

Not wanting to put her heart on the line
She now keeps it hidden and locked away
Why the same time she prays the god
Is she fine someone to love her someday

Don't be mistaken It's not love she fears
It's the pain when that love will die
She remembers the hurt of heartbreak
And the river of tears she will cry

With all the turmoil she's been through
It has made her heart a fragile thing
What she fears is also the cure she needs
And that's the joy only love can bring

Russet Moon

Russet Moon 

The moon tonight had a promise
of turning russet
When I looked up, the moon was
full and yellow and had a smile
on a round happy face
What can I say? Was I too late to 
See what Planet Watchers had 
longed for
Since from the kitchen window
It was the best place to observe
The moon, I made a cheese sarnie 
and a glass of low-fat milk.

Believe At Least

I’ve run out of things to say to you
I who love how language feels 
Cannot see your thoughts to know,
How to ask what you conceal.

Perfection is fine to a point,
An everlasting urge
but I’d never breathe again,
If I did not share our eternal love.

The exquisite princess of maiden joy
Can sacrifice her honor and her name,
By giving of her sullen self
from within her hidden carnal dream.

Understand the silent plan
The never spoken thought.
Reflect on days never lived,
Answers never given, never sought.

Receive please what you are due.
Believe at least that I love you.

Broken Things

Broken mugs 

And broken promises 

A broken lamp 

And broken knuckles

A broken TV 

And a broken stack of plates 

Broken drywall 

And broken glasses 

Broken bottles

And a broken door 

This is a broken home

And my heart cannot break anymore

Hurricane Of Hurt

This immense pain in my chest
Has my heart aching and breaking
There's a hurricane of hurt in me
All the pain it is giving I'm taking

With gale force winds of sadness 
Causing swells of tears in my eye
As I'm holding on for dear life
I ask myself the reason why

Why couldn't I love you more
Why was it that we had to fight 
Why couldn't i make us work 
Why can't I make this right

I've been sitting here wondering
If you'll come home someday
Will this pain in me subside
Its causing my mind to fray 

I'm caught in this hurricane
It seems all hope is lost
But I'll keep holding on to you
No matter what the cost

break-up Senryus

Quick break-up Senryus.
Pick one to quickly, cut that old
relationship cord:

I'm sorry, say what?
I can't hear you (confused look)
- we’re breaking up.

You’re the guy that
every girl at our school wants
- it's their lucky day.

It's time that we took
our relationship to the
previous level.

I still cherish the
initial misconceptions
I had about you.
.
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Songs for this:
Lovefool by The Cardigans
Nothing Can Stop Us by Saint Etienne
Forever by X-Cetra

Years of Horror

I can't help but wonder if we could even fix it anymore.
 
I don't know if I could ever forget crying there on the floor.

And I can't help but feel that all our future has in store,
 
Is years, and years, and years of horror.

Take It Back

If I could take it back the bad 
Know that I would do so fast
Retrieve every hurtful word 
Before the hatred was amassed

We would go back to the timel
Our love was perfect and fun
And you'd look at me and smile
Before all of the bad was done

To there never being any fights
When it was happiness and love
Do you remember being that way
Before the anger rained from above

We thought we'd be together forever
But now I guess we'll never tell
Because somewhere along the way
Our love was turned into hell

this isn't actually about flowers

i'm a small flower
a seed gifted to you by the universe 
meant to grow under your care
flourish
people don't like getting seeds
they don't want to plant them
to care for them
to be responsible 
they'd rather have a fully grown flower
no work, easy
put water in a vase, leave it to wilt
slowly watching it die
only watching 
not interacting
as life slips away 
why didn't you try to save me?
i could've been so beautiful
if only you wanted to plant me 
help me grow
care
people don't really like getting flowers
flowers die
i died
why am i temporary in everyone's life?

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