Someone once asked, if you could take it all back, would you?

A friend sent me an article that said
on average, 13.5 billion breakups span across your lifetime.
Everyone gets their heart broken
at least twice.
It's normal, don't you see? We're humans
therefore we ache.
Perhaps that was meant to be reassuring somehow,
i'm not alone
in this sea of sadness.

But all I could think of were
the number of
rose-gold necklaces that strung together
promises
that were too good to be true, now sitting
in unlabelled boxes,
hastily shoved in a corner collecting
dust and tears.

The great Amazon River is 3,192 miles long.
I used to be almost
twice as far away from him.
It's funny how
much I've flown just to
bridge the distance but now
I can't calculate
the number of
detours, taken on a daily basis,
or how many extra miles i go
just to avoid
any path he might
be on.

I wondered
where all the millions of deleted cheesy pictures
went
and how in the world
would wiping out his existence
help to reduce
the burning hole he left
in my heart.