Abandonment.

You walk away never to return.
You leave with no trace you were ever there.
You say goodbye or not and never look back.

Sometimes it’s necessary.
Sometimes it’s just abandonment for no good reason.
Sometimes your heart was just too small.
Sometimes your time was just too little.
Sometimes you were enamored by something or someone else.

Most of the time you know why.
You may not know the deeper reasons in your heart yet,
But you know at least what was on the surface.

But they don’t know why.
They feel the sting of loss.
They feel the worst kind of rejection.
They feel the back of your hand… on their cheek.
Their heart is left with an open, gaping wound,
You’ve just inflicted.

They are left with picking up the pieces…
Of their own heart.

Abandonment.