A Shattered Reply

A haunting, poem of love, loss, and the ruin left by rejection.

I begged the stars for mercy’s glow,
I chased the dawn, but it ran too slow.
Every heartbeat echoed, hollow, loud,
a promise lost beneath the crowd.

Your silence weighed like chains of stone,
each glance a wound, each word unknown.
I reached for you, but you pulled away,
and left my soul in night, not day.

I swore the fates would not divide,
that love, though fragile, could still abide.
But dreams can break like brittle glass,
and hope can fade much too fast.

I prayed for yes, a gentle hand,
a vow to stay, to understand.
But truth struck deep, a cruel imposter,
No, is also an answer.
I didn't know that the result,
would be such a disaster.

Line Count: 18
Prompt: End your story or poem with the following:
No is also an answer. I didn't know that the result would be such a disaster.
Please choose as one of your genres: Melodrama
Written for: "The Writer's Cramp"