I remember the day you gave me
that ring
the one that symbolized
our undying love.
One dragonfly and another
banded by silver and turquoise
etched in decadent design.
Oh, how beautiful it was
and how beautiful you were
when you said to me
how I was the one and
how we were always to be.
I remember how it felt,
sitting upon my ring finger
hoping one day
it may be the real thing.
I sit here in this house
in this home we built for two
but it’s nothing of the same
yet it still wreaks of you.
You are like a ghost
and I am but
your haunting grounds.
I’ve cleaned and I’ve saged.
I’ve begged and I’ve pleaded—
to finally say goodbye.
Goodbye to the day-old daydream
filling my head with make-belief
that one day
you and I
just might be;
that the pain we gave freely
could be taken away
just as easily.
And that one day,
I may share your name.
The universe made sure
to give me a little taste.
“Impeccable timing,” I thought
just as we came to a fork in our road
and went our separate ways.
I am jealous of the sky
that holds you
but I am more jealous
of the ring I’ll never wear.
Its beauty hidden in a box
like keeping it from the world
is a sin.
Where love once was,
banded by dragonflies,
and destined by the stars
You were mine, and I,
yours.
and now, there are butterflies.
butterflies who land promise
branded upon my pinky.
I dream of them
roaming wild and free
playing tag at dawn,
and being kissed at night
by the full moon,
and her eternal light.
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