You Deserved It All
Here I am
Still exhausted
What's a perfect sleep?
My eyelids sit perfectly on a bridge in my dreams
When I wake up you bolted,
and I'm forced to remember
You left me
Here I am
In a ball on the floor
If anyone asks
I can't breathe anymore
Here I am
I'm a stop gap
The one that showed you
You deserved it all
Still exhausted
Taking this week by week
All of this has effectively ended my winning streak
The lesson is duly noted,
as I'm forced to remember
You left me
Here I am
In a ball on the floor
If anyone asks
I can't breathe anymore
Here I am
I'm a stop gap
The one who showed you
You deserved it all
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Frankie Martinelli
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FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Amazing 🤯🤯🤯
Oh my heart 💔 Strongly felt x
Heartwrentching and melancholy!!! Brilliantly written!!! Live this!!!💕♥️♥️
Your moving expression resonates strongly with everyone who has felt comparable agony because it so authentically conveys the real misery of heartbreak.
Oh my God, Frankie, this was so good. I felt this way a few days ago and you wrote it out so well. Nicely done!
I've been a stop gap many times too. It crushes our heart and soul. Loved your poem!
Your raw honesty and vulnerability in expressing the pain of heartbreak truly resonates with me, reminding us all of the depths of human emotion.