You turn your back on me. You crush me with your selfish ways. You know I only want whats best for you. You know how much I love you! Why do you constantly lie and pretend I don't exist? Why do you hurt me so badly every chance you get? I know the life you think you want seems more exciting but it's going to cause you so much pain. Come back to me... let me hold you, comfort you, guide you, love you. I died a brutal and painful death for YOU and I would do it again in an instant. I died so you don't have to live in fear. I died so you can have freedom! This life you're choosing to live may feel free in the moment but it's a trap! It's going to chain you up and bind your heart in ways unimaginable, and when you realize it... it's going to be so painful to tear off those chains. Don't worry, don't be afraid.. I am here and I still love you, let me help you, let me hold you, let me love you through it all. I forgive you, come back home to me.

Challenge

Love

Write a poem about love, being in love, falling out of of love, anything about love! Entries end the end of Feb.

ElizaStemmons in Poetry & Free Verse

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Silently loving you

I'm used to playing pretend

Hiding pain and holding back tears

This isn't any different

Yet I can't let myself lose you

Even though it burns

I hold on to the flame

While hiding it from the world

Hoping in a miracle

A distant future

With you by my side

Dreaming of dancing in black and white

Echoes of a life I don't know if I get to live

I'm already in mourning for the possibility

Of losing you

I write a word for every tear

I shed a tear for every moment away from you

What have you done to me, my love

I fall asleep thinking of you

And my thoughts turn into dreams

I finally have the hope of seeing you

Pictures don't do you justice

And after so much time

I'm forgetting your voice

And the way you move

Every part of you that I love

Is slowly slipping away

In my dreams you return

And I can see you again

But every time we are about to touch

On the brink of seeing sparks

I wake up and remember

That you are far away and not allowed

And I live with the fog of a memory

Of your hand touching mine

And of your breath on my lips

Challenge

Tell me it's okay

Break your reader's heart! No swearing or blasphemy, and please don't tag me because I'll read all of your entries :)

EmmKara

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Tell me it’s okay

Tell me that the broken pieces of my heart will one day be mended. That if I just keep swimming I'll eventually reach the shore. Tell me that this isn't forever. That the crushing ache in my chest and the ever-flowing tears will stop, and I'll breathe again. Tell me I'll find my way, and that the days of wandering aimlessly through life without purpose will be long behind me. Tell me the sun will come out and light the darkness that imprisons my mind and cripples my soul. Tell me you see past my smile, and that one day it will be real.

Please, just tell me it's okay. Tell me because I don't believe myself. My once bright eyes have dimmed, and I'm struggling to swim. My arms have gotten heavy and my legs are numb. I'm in the middle of the ocean without a life jacket. The waves are crashing down on me without any breaks in between, and I fear I'll drown before I ever see the shore or the new horizons it will bring.