lingering vestige

"lingering vestige"
There's heartbreak in my soul, 
   though that word 
   is not entirely conducive
   to how it feels for me,

It's not like a crack 
in something broken,
it's more like a sticky substance, 
an oily sap 
that attaches 
to everything inside me,

The break came 
when we separated, 
when our connection 
ceased to be, 
what remains in the aftermath 
isn't 
a structure broken in two 
but an awful dark substance 
that can never really be 
cleaned thoroughly, 

There will always be hints 
of it 
somewhere 
in the furthest recesses, 
a kind of residue 
that never really goes away, 
just a vague stain 
of heartbreak
of what I once felt 
for you.

-Armando Torres