It Has Wings

A sonnet about my first breakup

Love has flown away and left all of my days the same
Waking to work, working to eat, eating to maintain
There is nothing I wouldn’t give for another utterance of your name
You have left so much for my mind alone to explain

Sometimes I consider the brevity of our relationship
And wonder if there was more I could’ve done
To cement myself in your life’s trip
Ensuring that I would forever be your only one

But there is no use dwelling on the past
Or remembering how you packed your love away
Side-stepping out of our bond so incredibly fast
As if your mind said it would be worse to stay

Now, all that remains are memories, the ones I know to be true
Of a brief moment in time when you loved me, and I loved you