BreakUp Sestina
Madeleine Van Haute
Growing Together or Apart by Haley Butler
BreakUp Sestina
My past is the only thing that I can hear and it's loud.
The booming of all my memories
Is the thing that's shaking.
The past is making my heart start pounding.
I’m trying to find hope;
Trying to find peace.
The one thing I can never find is peace.
Everything around me is obnoxious and loud.
Although I manage to find hope
Every day I can’t do it with these memories.
Again with all of the fear in my heart, I’m shaking.
My mind full of heartache is pounding.
With all of the coldness and anger around me I’m shaking.
When I think I am about to find peace
I don’t and again everything is making my head and heart start pounding.
Once I clear my head all of the loud
Noises stop, but then the bitter memories
Kick in again. I have to find some hope.
Everyone says that hope
Will make it better, but what if you can’t find it with all of the shaking?
He made the past miserable and those sweet memories
Bitter with hate. He is the reason for my lack of peace.
With the sad past flying out at me insanely loud
Everything begins pounding.
Like all the wet tears and sleepless nights have ended in before, pounding.
The noise of sorrow doesn’t end and maybe it's the reason for my lack of hope.
Again everything is quiet, but it’s only when I clear my head that the past begins to get loud
Again and the pitiful tears start and make me start shaking
The only thing I’ve lacked since he left is peace
The past is the only thing left that I have to remember him and the painful memories
That make me swell up with sorrow and hatred. People say that new, happy memories
Will be made with someone else, but how can I get over him and everything with the pounding
Of my heart? maybe they’re right and I can find peace
Once again. All of a sudden hope
Pours into my heart and the shaking
Was close to stopping but everything that was loud
Stopped suddenly and the memories gave me hope.
Suddenly the pounding stops and the shaking
Ceases now the only thing that is loud is my newly found peace.