JEREMIAD ON ROMANCE: "TEACH ME HOW TO LEAVE HER" BY KLYRICAL RHYMES

Teach me

how to silence the echo

of her name in rooms she’s never walked in

How to suffocate the sigh

that slips from my chest

every time I pass someone wearing her scent

Help me bury

the version of me that waits by phones

who still dreams in her language

who carves hope from shadows

and calls it love

Train my hands to be merciless

to strangle the memory of her laughter

until it stops sounding like salvation

To cut the string between heartbeats and her smile

and not flinch

when the silence follows

I want to unlove her

not hate, not forget

but detach like old roots from a tree

that no longer offers shade

Break me, if you must

Break the boy who believed in always

But build me again

this time with armor

instead of ache

Because I am tired

of loving someone

who forgot how to hold me

and only remembers

how to haunt

KԼƳƦƖƇƛԼ ƦӇƳMЄƧ 

- Kenya

The poet persona laments over loving a woman who does not love him. The speaker is unable to get her away from his mind. The voice is tired of being wrongly in love.