The Wounded Heart: For Love, I'd Given My All

By Aurora Aisling

At twenty three years of life, my heart is mangled. The love I shared was taken and given to another. Though, my muse he continues to be. Each word written has been taken from myself and laid to rest on the paper you read now. Don't simply read, absorb it inside yourself and feel. Love has three sides; happiness, uncertainty, and pain. I got to experience all through the love I thought was guaranteed until death should we part...simply not the case. Open your senses, be empathetic and experience the emotion. Only then can you appreciate someone's pain and joy. This isn't just a book filled with random words...this is my heart, my soul, and my mind...

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481768375

Aurora Aisling

Aurora Aisling writes to find release. Instead of revealing her vulnerability, she opens up to herself with pen in hand. Aurora was raised in Tennessee where she found love, even as she watched as it walked out her front door into the arms of another, that love still lives.

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© 2013 by Aurora Aisling. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/10/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-6836-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-6837-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911486

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Contents

A Broken Lullaby

A Disappointed Dream

A Lesson Before Dying

Always But Not Forever

Angel

Autumn

Beneath The Shadows

Beneath The Waves

Blindfolded

Bride & Groom

Broken Hourglass

Butterfly

Charming

Countdown

Crazy

Cupid’s Mistake

Dear Angel

Death’s Cry

Describe It

Despair

Disclaimer

Do Or Die

Dream

Empty

Fall

Favorite

Feminine Heart

Happily Ever After

Heartbeat

Horizon

Horror Movie

Hypocrites

I Know

I… Love… You…

I Wanna…

Images

Imposter

Inspired Thoughts

It’s You

Karma

Keen On Kill

Kewi

King Of Hearts

Life Like A Feather

Life Sucks

Light Switch

Lost In The Wind

Lost Love’s Torch

Love

Love Challenged

Love Dare

Love For Two

Memorable Pages

My Cinderella’s Kidnapped

My Foolishness

My Song

Nature

Once Upon A Broken Heart

Pain

Peek-A-Boo

Playin’ On The Radio

Prayer

Puzzle Pieces

Rainbows And Ponies

Reflection

Regret

Release

Remember

Safe Heart

Side Effects

Sing To Me

Slipping Through My Fingers

Smtwtfs

Snooze Button

So, You think you Know Me

Storytale

Sunshine

Tennessee

The Age Of Time

The Eyes Of A Mirror

The Fall

The Luck Of Love

The Sky’s Tear Drops

The Wolf

Therapy

There’s No Such Thing

Tiger

Time

Unseen Pain

Unwanted Identity

Walk On

What If I Lose

Winter Of No Answers

Wish

Words

You Don’t Know Me

Yours

A Broken Lullaby

i loved you first

i’ll love you last

even though our love

was lost in the past

i know there’s been time

between then and now

but i haven’t yet picked

my heart up from the ground

now it’s all covered

in dirt, grime, and dust

what point is there to wash it

the pain is the same as what it was

why can’t i let you go

leave you in the past

how do you know the right time to call

that you always pull me back

i love you

but you made your feelings clear

so why are you randomly calling

filling my head with your tears

always just one phone call

never anything more

and it goes back to the way

i was treated like before

it’s like you’re pressing the knife

deeper into my skin

you take it away

then do it all over again

i can only take the pain so long

until my veins run dry

when finally there’s nothing left

and you’re wondering why

i’m here now

just the way you left me

every bruise still on my heart

clear to the naked eye

i keep my feelings silent

emotions held in check

my tears only shine

when i’m tucked inside my bed

sometimes i can’t help it

when a song plays in the car

on the way home from work

i can’t stop the tears that spill

lord knows i would gladly give you

my last breath of life

if only i could only hear you

say i love you one last time

i begged god for mercy

every time you went away

but i guess that he was busy

because it never came

so, still i’m here waiting

for the day you change your mind

when i can look into your eyes again

and kiss your cheek goodnight

always-n-forever

A Disappointed Dream

tell me… tell me…

wont you please

why you so this

it’s cruel and mean

what point is there in talking

if you don’t mean what you say

why bring up old feelings

if you don’t intend on coming back to stay

i wait for you hoping

you’ll walk back through that door

but i’ve learned the only point to any of this

is you’ll just hurt me more

i let you go before

and i’m sure i can do it again

you may not be skilled at pretending

but an actress i have played

my smile is as stiff as plastic

and my laugh is surely fake

just as long as you’re happy

i’ll make everyone think i’m ok

i don’t need you to call me

to remind me of the pain

don’t tell me things to hurt me

the straw already proved too much weight

the only thing i can do is survive

because i know you wont come back

always-n-forever

A Lesson Before Dying

-i didn’t kill no man-, he said

my head hung low in defeat

how on earth can i rise above

while the devil grips my feet

-i didn’t kill no man-, he said

but time has passed away

i’m sitting here

day after day, week after week

-i didn’t kill no man-, he said

from quiet whispers, now to screams

nobody around will listen

angry, i grit my teeth

-i didn’t kill no man-, he said

but what does it