Burnout

This is the first poem I shared with my friends on Opacity, and their reaction to it is what got me writing more and sharing more of it. At the time, I was going through a pretty rough break-up, and all I could think of was how I felt like I was an abandoned building. I think (I hope) I did a pretty good job describing that feeling so that others could understand it too...

Burnout

I feel like the burned out corpse
of the building you abandoned
last December in the snow.

Without you to give me purpose
what is left for me to do now?
Do you even know?

My heart has been torn to shreds
like the curtains, the last vestiges
of a bygone, forgotten day.

I did everything I could do
gave you all that I could give
but you wouldn't stay.

I guess I'll just sit here for now
rot away in the snow
until my final breath.

Nothing left to give
nothing left to say
there is simply nothing left.