Rummaging through a box
I found the letters that you wrote.
More than thirty years
have passed but your words
still have the power to emote.
Pages full of memories that
bring a lump to my throat,
I had once said that to you
my life I would devote.
For a while you were
content with my devotion,
until you fell for a stranger
and with him crossed the ocean.
You left my heart
in pieces upon the floor
as I waited years for you
to walk back through the door.
You never did return,
instead you sent these letters
telling me of your sadness
that you could not make things better.
That stranger that you
ran away it wasn’t who he said,
instead he was an alcoholic
with a foul temper who beat
you until you were dead.

wow…powerful
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