Best Requited Poems

Tonight, the rains gush down upon my life,
Like shards of glass they cut through every vein.
Your footsteps, plodding heavily with strife,
Regretful puddles echoing your pain.

To walk away can be the hardest thing,
When there’s no love requited left to claim.
Though better than to die amidst the...

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She's thirty when she learns her fate
the truth about her lot in life, 
a truth that fills her heart with hate
and cuts her like a knife

His face, once pleasant to her eye
his manner, once endearing
his jokes, once charming, quick and dry
now madden her to tearing

He's...

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Love is unconditional,  but promises are not
When love is not requited such are promises, forgot

Vows deferred as if uncertain sounds of rhetoric
Seems times and seasons, rhymes and reasons were only shtick
Yet the desire deferred only proves a heart to be sick
A mind that is...

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Tiptoeing through the garden of love                                       ...

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Echoes hide on the waves, of the rippling pool                                    ...

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She lay there seduced
To a pile of ashes reduced
An all engulfing flame
He set her on fire
Through the night
Quenched her desire...

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Unto your heart I bequeath my being
A thousand deaths, I’d die for you
As your dear face is all I’m seeing
So, in my heart, I hold you true

The sun may die, no more eternal
The sky may one day bleed with rain
My heart, my love, it shows...

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The blissful ignorance of self-denial
as a means to self-awareness and inner meaning
denies the selfless bliss of
service and love for others.
To make less of self,
to cease selfish cravings and desires,
is more about striving to satisfy
the needs of others than to
blast away at what you think you...

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Framed in the moonlight -
you appear ethereal.
Quintessential, beyond reach.

I shine no brighter -
than your starlit gaze. I say...
'the light shall bend to our will'.



02.27.2024...

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