Another Broken Heart

A haiku

Another broken heart won’t break me; I am strong, I am whole, complete.

It’s been almost one year since a man I loved dearly, broke my heart; the catalyst for my writing on Medium. The above is an excerpt from the very first poem I wrote on Medium and in well over twenty years.

I have had my heart broken before of course, as I am in my forties and twice divorced, but not quite like this. I had never before loved like this; raw and real and with my whole self and thus the pain was greater too. You get what you put in for good and for bad.

The breakup was devastating for me. I envisioned a future with this man whom I held to the highest regard; I saw him bigger than he saw himself.

I wrote about my heartache from the depths of my soul, poems pouring out of me until I healed. Some days I think that I am still healing, but then again…becoming is a never-ending journey, so perhaps I am.

I have sprouted taller, stronger and more grounded from this experience than perhaps ever in my adult life and I am grateful, but some days, I still miss him.

Today, as I near the one-year mark of the breakup, I celebrate all the miracles I have created since, including this very publication Being Known — a home for my inner truth, the place where I get to share my whole self with all of you. Today I celebrate my writing, real and raw, that I’d always been terrified to share; I celebrate my courage.

And no — another broken heart won’t break me. I might be wounded, as we all are, but I am not broken. I am a survivor, a fighter, and a thriver, and today — I celebrate this!

The full poem, written two weeks after the breakup and full of raw pain, is below: