By Nicole Betts
Date: 20 January 1999

Heartache

   I keep a locket round my neck,
   his picture in its frame,
   I keep it close when I sleep at night,
   so as not to feel the pain.

   A gift of love he gave to me,
   what seems like long ago
   a gift he gave with star filled eyes
   when love was in his heart.

   He left one day so suddenly 
   teardrops filled my eyes!
   He left that day without a note,
   to tell me where he'd gone.

   Never expected him to say goodbye
   just when I fell in love,
   never knew what heartache was
   till he loved me, and walked away...