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Poetry on Odyssey: The Heartbreak Collection

A collection of poems written in a time of true heartache.

Isabella Cash

Mar 30, 2019

Millennials of New Jersey

Poetry on Odyssey: The Heartbreak Collection

Photo taken by Isabella Sena-Cash.

The Stained Glass Window

A stained glass window sheds its color in the light

Protected by darkness in a deep abyss of night

Within the blue of the sky travels the sun

Light changes, and the colors bleed out one by one

A rainbow so rare, protected by the dark

Yet the sun seeks it out, to meet the mark

Soon the sun slips away, and the light is lost

To reveal one's true colors can come at a cost

The fury of darkness crashes through the glass

In a moment it shatters, crushed by pain's mass

Shards scatter the floor, yet its color remains

No darkness could protect from these lamented pains

Shall I sit all alone to pick up each piece?

Will this be what causes my intense pain to cease?

It still remains beautiful, disproving my fears

Though its beauty remains, on fall my tears

Memories of You

Memories of you

Struggle against the tide

Looking endlessly

For something to cling to

Memories of you

Crack like seaglass

Against the raging waves

Falling to pieces

Memories of you

Can strain no longer

As the waves of my pain

Tug them down

Memories of you

Cease their struggle

And fall, yet gracefully

To the dark abyss below

Memories of you

Rest on the ocean's floor

Among endless grains of sand

Lost to the deep

Yet still, unbroken.

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