Even Heartbreak Was Taken
written by: The Stranger
I eagerly wait for you,
day and night.
Aching of being with you.
At times, I sleep although I am not sleepy,
just for the chance
of finding you in my dreams.
I then see you
and my heart surges,
pumping with emotions —
running from excitement
and crying from knowing
It has been put on repeat.
The universe made it a loop.
I see a shimmer of a smile
from that lovely face of yours.
I get ensnared in that piercing gaze.
Your eyes are an ocean,
a vast one that I yearn
to drown in.
Am I the only prisoner
enchanted by the sentence cast upon them?
The one who takes torment for a living,
gets paid in rejection —
yet would, and will,
do it all over again if asked.
Condemned with the pleasure of heartbreak.
Counting the minutes every night
with excitement
for the moment, his heart
is put to the stake.
Yet, on another dimension,
another god-playing actor
lurks from afar.
Feasting on the movie of my torment.
Takes away my chance
to go through heartbreaks.
Denies me the right
to be tormented by love.
Claims it’s a privilege.
Takes this privilege away.
Takes me away
to the darkest pit.
To be sent to another prison —
one that I loathe.
One that I fight.
This actor is entrenched
Is systemic
At the end, I am alternating
between two cells —
One I would choose again and again,
bound by the sweet chains of your heart
and the lashes of your eyes.
And another that tears me out of it,
to the one I hate,
the one I abhor
with its rusty chains.
I want my given right
to be tormented,
to be heartbroken —
But maybe in another life.
At least I hope so.
- Even Heartbreak Was Taken - April 10, 2026
