Heartbreak is not a Metaphor

I have known heartbreak- 

not just as metaphor.

I have seen pain, learned 

what we have these tear ducts for. 

I have known loss, I 

have mourned those now gone, 

I have keened quiet-

sung eulogy's song.

I have known loneliness,

coldest companion,

I have found emptiness,

none to take comfort in. 

Black night has swallowed me,

sun rose despite it-

I have known wrong, 

but I live now to write it.