#33 Shattered Pieces

What happens when a person has to be strong enough to pick up the pieces of a broken heart? This poem is so very personal to me, I'm in love with a man I can't have. He's moving, and I'm going to be left behind.

They say all good things must end - but I don't want it to.

This poem originally was published in Sad Poems - Lost Love Poems

Shattered Pieces

by Cherenee

Inside my sleeve, I pull out my heart,
handing it to you, "careful it's fragile,
and easily falls apart."

Extending your arms, you take the heart in
your tender warm hands.
It falls into a million shattered pieces - on
the floor it lands.

You begin to bend down to pick it up, sorrow and
sadness in your eyes.

Apologies are not enough.

Looking at you with tears in my eyes,
I ask you not to pick up the pieces of a heart
that has fallen apart.

I am the one who needs to pick up the pieces of
my shattered heart - one by one, piece by piece.

I need to put it together again, some how. some way.

Each piece of my heart has a memory so true.
Each piece of my heart has part of you.

You are the one who is leaving to start a new lease on life.
I'll just be here on my knees picking up the pieces of a
heart that feels like it's being pierced with a knife.

All my tears won't keep you near
All my tears won't mend what's not here.

Again I look at you with a whisper in my voice,
The only way my heart will mend and finally be complete,
is if you and I can come together without being discreet.
You see, what we have here and today, helps me face the
world, with a love for you that gives a glow -
but now, my darling, you made a choice.

My heart is on this floor, shattered and broke.
With each piece I pick up -
I need to learn to let go.

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lizzy

this poem is sooo how i feel at the moment! thank u for making me realise that i need to start picking up the pieces of my own heart. i rate this a 10!
stephanie

that was so great ,an so deep i love it because we all need to learn to let go sometime
chuaxinzhi

nice one. that's what im exactly feeling then. )
mika

your poem is really beautiful. i used the main idea of your poen in my assignment its really pretty. keep writing. you got the potential. and by the way i posted it in my website (my assignment and i take the main idea from your poem). awesome.
megan

MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT WHEN I READ THIS. IT TOUCHED MY SOUL. IT WAS AS IF I HAD WRITTEN IT WITH MY OWN HANDS. I WAS IN A 5 YR RELATION SHIP AND IM SINGLE NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. THIS POEM DESCRIBES HOW I FEEL AND HOW I FELT THROGHT THE BREAK UP AND THROUGH TODAY. ITS VERY WELL WRITTEN. ~MEG
Pa

As for the problem that I am going through right now and what is happening in my love life, this poem wrote out exactly how I felt. This poem made my tears scroll down. It is true that a person you love is going to move on with life while you are still bending down to pick up the broken pieces of heart. Even saying sorry won't fix a piece.
Annette

With the words that this poet wrote seemed so real and touching. I feel like this poet wrote it while they were in pain.
Mary

I think your poem was wonderful and It's also the type of things i'm going through with my boo. And i think you should writs more poems about love and broken hearts, I really like those kinds of poems that you be writing . I"m always on the inner net looking for poems like yours. "Thank you for have the words to say"! Take care. Mary. J
Chere

I really like this poem. I am going through problems with my boyfriend right now and its describing it good. I did give him my heart and now its in pieces. I know that i am the one who has to pick them up off the floor. But every time I do, it just drops to the floor again.
Kaitlin

this poem is very touching and true but somehow i always over come. since i have learned how to deal with it
Cecil

Your words were mine, thanks for a great poem sob
Emanuel

It was so Compassionate.
erika

I am in the middle of a divorce and this poem made me cry and also made me realize i am not alone.
francisco

this poem make me feel about sad with pain.
Sam

This poem reminds me SO much of somethin which happened to me recently. I was with a guy i thought was perfect for me, and he ended up spliting up with me for my best friend. I learnt that i had to move on, but i dont htink i will ever get over it. You always remmber your first love. This poem really is touching.
irma

the poem is soooo awsome! keep up good work.
luvia

i love this poem my friend is goin through the same
Griselda

I really liked this poem. it made me cry and think about all the things that are going on in my life. I need to learn how to let go of all the pain i have deep inside of me.
alen

wowwwwwwwwwwww. i can really relate to this poem. I LOVE IT. its bean 4 months that my boyfriend broke up with me i still see him he is in my school . he likes another girl. my heart is broken. and he is the only one that can fix it . but i gusse it wont work becuase i've got only two more days to see him and then after that he is out of my life but he is safe in my broken heart. i wish i could get back woth him. i love him so muchhhhhhh . that i can die for him.
beanie

I love the poem! I don't know whats going on with me and my boyfriend but all I know is that if I could put my feelings into words, this poem would describe exactly how my heart feels.

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