EULOGY

How do i begin to write the end?

Love that once was- now a fiend.

This is the last of our poetry...

I'll give it my all- you deserve the best of me.

Every word I wrote, I wrote for you.

Every song I sang, you were the tune.

My love was ethereal, surpassed all space and time,

You were my all- My reason, My rhyme.

Nights of clandestine meetings and midnight tea,

Days I smiled hopelessly, lost in a reverie.

The pain gets accute, as i remember the past..

I choke back the tears, Love breathes it's last.

For too long I deluded myself- believed our love was true,

I see now, that it was only I who loved you!

Do you know what it feels like to hurt so much that you go numb with pain?

Do you know what it feels like to have your heart ripped out your chest and squished-again and again?

I'll tell you what it feels like- It's like your tender touch,

Your smile, your kisses that i crave for so much...

It feels like the words you never said to me,

It feels like the love you never offered- you could have set me free..

Broken and destroyed, I've become the worst of me,

All hope is dead- I'm shackled to your memory.

Damaged forever, no strength left to try

to fix myself. I slip slowly, let myself die...

On the funeral pyre of my love, I lay my dead heart,

My dreams and hopes go with it- peacefully depart-

Never again to love, never again to feel this way.

All good things died within me, the day you walked away.

Before it all ends, would you grant my last request?

I don't know if I'm strong enough, to do what I know is best.

So, if by chance I falter, help me do what is right.

Just this once, my love- please hold my hand- set my pyre alight.