The tears won’t bring you back, neither will the screams.
Yet I lay there every night crying and hoping, watching as the clock ticks closer to 2:30am.
2:30am, that’s when you would come home.
The night is a constant reminder of our endless conversations.
The stars and the moon serve as a reminder of your absence.
The sun no longer shines, as if you took it with you when you left.
You are everywhere, except here beside me.
Although loving you was draining, I always found an excuse for it.
I longed for you, but you longed for her.
You chose her.
On this day, I knew it was the last day of love.
It’s 3:57am, you no longer are on my mind.
This piece was inspired by the book The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur. Reading through this book, her heartbreak poems stood out to me the most as she uses a unique style. In order to put this poem together, I looked at a few of her pieces and picked out words that inspired my writing such as; endless, draining, sun, love, etc. The first two stanzas of the poem suggest feelings of despair and loneliness. The third stanza shows a shift as there is now realization and understanding. The time of 2:30 is significant in this poem because it’s the hour where all the feelings and memories rush back, but after that hour passes those feelings do too. I kept this poem short, inspired by the way Rupi Kaur writes very minimally. I personally prefer short heartbreak poems rather than long ones as I feel the shorter it is, the more powerful and meaningful it is. My intent was to capture the feelings of heartbreak in less than 4 stanzas.
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