By Matthew Tighe

The most painful taste of reality is truth
Truth in knowing it has ended entirely
I watched many a person exit my life
There is so much I would say to them
To you
I still love those who left my life
even if they left in hatred
How could I hate someone I loved once before?
not a day goes by where I don’t think of that day
the day you faded away
I still remember your love fondly
All of the plans we'd made
All of the promises you shattered
I made sure to be careful with your heart
I should have acted sooner
You drifted away from me slowly
And I saw you disappear into mist
A mist that would evaporate in the sunlight
I feel no hate for you
But an anger at myself
 There is so much I would say to you
I have been forgotten by you 
I have dreams of you
dreams that you love me again
only to be fooled by my mind’s way of coping
all of the nights and days I spent with you
only to be cut by your cold heart
I have reduced you to mere memories now
memories that will one day fade away 
like snow in spring thaw
your absence 
shall haunt me 
to the end