An Empty Slate.

Written: 23/06/2022
Revised: 19/06/2025
Theme: quiet heartbreak, love and loss, second chances, unspoken pain, relationship grief

I gave you another chance,
Said we'd start off with an empty slate.
You smiled -lovingly,
I took it as a yes.

Your behaviour didn't change,
It was still the same.
The same hurtful words,
The same broken home.

After all this,
I told you we were done.
But you pleaded-again,
For one final chance.

Those eyes -the ones I lose myself in,
Stopped me from saying no.
I offered my heart once more,
After collecting the pieces.

But once again,
You treated it without care.
The same cycle,
Only ever repeating.

I came to realise,
After so long,
An empty slate,
That's all our relationship was.