when it all fell apart

By: Abbey Kelley
issue 13

he wouldn’t meet her eyes
when he told her that he met someone,
suggesting they take a break to figure themselves out.

“but I love you,” she said over the lump in her throat,
eyes burning with unshed tears.
“there’s nothing for me to figure out.”

“I’m sorry,” he told her.

Poem
breakups

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