"Five Seconds After Breakup" by Earlczar (Pinoypoets)

Five Seconds After Breakup

Eralczar

Silence,...
Its deafening, ...
I can hear every dew
Dropping from the blades
Of the grasses,
Or the songs of the
Crickets singing their
Last farewell to the world.
I can hear the whisper
Of the earth's womb,
Giving birth to
Yet another heartache.
Or the mumbling of my
Hungry stomach,
Buried, along with the
Noise of silence
Reverberating across the room.
But,
I never heard your lips
Forming the word "goodbye",
Instead,
I heard two pieces of wood
Crash into each other,
Like gunpowder and heat.
Then,
The sound of your heels,
And the sound of a heart, crying.
Mine.

-=0=-

Above poem was posted on the Pinoy Poets Yahoo Groups. Okay, it's February, and I sent a whole lot of love poems shared from the Pinoy Poets Yahoo Groups, however, the whole picture is incomplete unless you add poems about breakups. And there are not too many of them. this one, however, is quite descriptive and captures the emptiness of a breakup. It is not common knowledge, that when a breakup happens, both parties hurt.

--andoy
8 February 2005