The Heart You Threw Away

I found my heart in the gutter today
In the place you'd thrown it away.
It was battered and bruised,
broken and used.
How could you leave it that way?

I remembered the words that you'd told me,
That day back so long ago.
When I gave it to you, so
shiny and new, and you'd said
how you loved me so.

You promised you'd never foresake me.
You promised you'd always be true.
You promised me then,
what cannot be again.
I could always believe in you.

You told me of love and tomorrows.
Filled me with false hopes and dreams.
My love for you grew, and
I never knew. What you gave me
was not what it seems.

I look at our past now and wonder.
Did you ever intend to stay?
Or was it a lark to play with
my heart...............
that I found in the gutter today.