Trade In Stones Poem by Jade Murphy

Billowing and suffocating,
there it was- so many
treading and tearing it apart.
The black hole.
A pang of lonliness, hit
again and again like a stone
on sand.
I'm alone.
Don't you see?
Amid the black cloud of darkness.

Stop

One little glimmer you were, an ember.
A smile, spread wide into your eyes.
I would not be alone again,
I dared myself to hope,
Your smile spread wide into my heart.
Contagious, and full of affection.
I was yours and you were mine
each our own precious stone.
Was it love?
I let myself hope.... no

Like an untrustworthy friend,
you made me the same stone again,
discarded and cast asunder,
left for the blackness to feed on me,
again.
As you proudly reveal to the world
your shiny new stone.