Heartache

How much longer will my heart grieve,
For the love I had but lost?
This hollow ache that does not leave,
I've paid so high a cost,

How my heart holds tight to faintest hope,
That we could be once more,
Fraying like a threadbare rope,
Straining to the core,

My head is screaming at my heart,
That it's best to just let go,
And though it slowly breaks apart,
My heart keeps saying no.

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My heart breaks,
My soul aches,

I would not feign,
Such constant pain,

My soul deeply longs,
But sad are the songs,

Bittersweet are the tunes,
Of a heart left in ruins,

Though hope so threadbare,
Ever weak, is still there,

And cuts me to the core,
Caught in a slamming door,

Emotions drowning in ambivalence,
Such contradiction makes no sense.

Drowning in a sea of tears,
Filled with memories, miles, and years,

Seasons come and seasons gone,
Changes rise at dusk and dawn,

Whispers linger from the past,
Some will fade, but others last,

Spectral glimpses of hopes and dreams,
'What ifs' and regretful 'could have beens'.