Abandoned heart

I gave you everything I had

But that wasn’t enough

My riches were just pennies

For you didn’t want it

You had other wishes

Fugacious pleasures

Of immediate satisfaction

Delusive whispers

Of misplaced verses

Few keys played in the piano of love

And our song was over

I wanted an opus magnum

But yours was a mere jingle

Quick rhythms

Broken notes

No cadence

Mellifluous indecency

Suddenly the room was empty

Petals spread over the bed

Empty glasses on the sofa

Your sweet smell everywhere

Memories spinning over the head

Awaken without meaning

Unsure of being alive

Or numbly dead

Bitterness for breakfast

Sour tastes of a lonely morning

When the day wakes up

But the sun doesn’t rise

And a gloomy cloud

Hovers over the soul

And so, it ended

A fleeting journey

From the kingdom

Of desired love

To the beggary slums

Of an abandoned heart.

How to cite this Poem:

Cargnin dos Santos, Tadany. Abandoned heart.