Painful memories of shattered dreams

Unreciprocated loves, baffled screams

All that wasn’t but should have been

And all that was that I wish I hadn’t seen.

Choking tears that I never cried

Burning me inside before they died

The lump in the throat, the suffocation

Life is cruel, the blunt realisation.

Not everything is what it seems

Bright darkness and lightless beams

Thus are the scars on our hearts

Pains carved until the soul departs.