When a life well lived has ended,
it leaves an incomprehensible hole.
How can we ever conceive of
the disappearance of a soul?
Yet, I think what's even sadder
is when the things that could have been
remain undone, never flowering,
finished before they could begin.
A new mother, with undying love,
how her heart is harshly torn
by the unfathomable tragedy
when her new baby is stillborn.
Untold words of a lifelong, faithful friend,
the words of passionate love
that can no longer be spoken
to a would-be lover up above.
The unattempted dreams of a man
afraid to try, only to himself, betray,
a little grief each day, waves on a rock,
slowly wearing those dreams away.
Categories:
unattempted, grief,
Form: Rhyme
I cannot sleep oh!
Sleep well.
Let’s leave right
now, O love!
Into the street and
eavesdrop…
What the
professors, the
fellow poet,
And the editor say
About my true secret
feelings conveyed to
you
At times, in an
unattempted verse
Ah! Breaking
traditions, old
customs in Art.
And move on
secretly and slowly,
Unnoticed by the
dogs barking
beneath the lamp-
posts
And listen by their
window,
Do the lovers laid in
bed
Whisper in each
other’s ears—
Quote our lines,
reference our poems,
And pretend as ours
their love!
Have gone public!
Oh! Have gone public
Today, sometimes to
my will,
Sometimes not!
Categories:
unattempted, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse
i gave you my hand,
with out knowing you,
igave you my body.
not a clue of what you'd make me feel,
i gave you my heart,
blindly risked the unattempted,
i gave you a child.
unaware i just gave my life and
my all to a stranger
and from all i gave i also recieved
excitement, pleasure, love, and
happyness from once a stranger
came to be my friend, my partner
my lover, my one and only you
i love you
felipe santiago
Categories:
unattempted, dedication, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost
Form: Verse
Wake me up after I die
drowning myself from these
streaming eyes
killing my pain so softly within me
sitting here crying,
watching the blood drip down me.
Swollen wrists, why can't I stop?
this pain starves me with every drop
buried under my own skin
its hurting me inside
again and again.
tearing myself under this strain
continuously crying, pouring out rain
lying under this putrid soul
bleeding so noxiously out of control
becoming so intense, this pain I can't bare
I'm holding on myself, choking out air
breathing so faintly, thinking in despair
this is only a dream, it can't be real.
I'm screaming inside, I can't hide what I feel
lying by myself, waiting for these wounds to heal
gripeing at the blood flowing down my hand
holding it between my fingers
watching it sink between like sand.
Letting myself drown by these tears over flown
helplessly breaking every nerve, every bone
I've fallen into a disaster of my own
leaving myself to die, selfishly all alone.
Categories:
unattempted, death, depression, lifeme, pain,
Form: Free verse