Unrequited Poems

Next Lifetime

My love,
I was loving you like the root of a sweet potato—
tied to the heart,
but never to the feelings.

Let’s meet again in another lifetime.
That time,
I’ll be the one to find you first,
and I’ll hold your hand
before the world can take you away.

Miss You More

I'm missing you all over again
And it's not because you gave me hope
It's not because I love you more now

I miss you every day, especially at night
And it's because I gave myself hope
Because I saw you, now I see you everywhere

Unrequited Love

You anchor your rancor, a cancerous canker,
Not just any mole
Your hatred you hide it, you split and divide it,
It's soured your soul

The women, you bait them, you date and berate them,
You're no kind of man
You're just out for the kill and you spill out your swill,
Like nobody can

Their hearts beating faster, they race towards disaster,
Watch

If My Poems Were Eulogies

If being pretty were a crime, you’d already be behind the bars
Because angels look at their reflection and wish they had your smile
And I’m not sentimental, but to you I must confess:
I’ve waited ages to find someone whose beauty can compare 
If my poems were eulogies, you’d be nothing short of dead
Because not romanticizing you

All My Low Moments

I hate my low moments.
Those moments when I try not to but my eyes find your name and my finger dial your number
These days it never goes through anymore
All I hear is a beep then a silence I will never fill with words
I dont want you to pick up.
I dont want your voice to warm

STAY

Come near do not take your gaze from mine
The heavens have nothing on the stars of your eyes
If you're willing take my hand. let our destinies entwine
If not then fear not for your company will grant me respite
A reprieve from the death of love unachieved
The loss of my heart to an unassuming thief
To be deprived

Alcatraz

In the quiet corners of her whispered fears,  
she carries a heart wrapped in shadows,  
trembling like the leaves outside,  
each gust a reminder of the storm within.  

Her laughter dances just out of reach,  
a melody sweet yet haunting,  
where the notes are soft,  
and her silences

Unrequited love

How am I supposed to feel after expressing it.
It’s so bad, this unrequited love.
I yearn to have you love me but it’ll never happen.
Why must I be so close to you yet so far, for now I hold onto you, but how long can I keep going.
It’s a bad religion to be in love with

Unrequited Love, a Soliloquy

To love someone who no longer loves you is the cruelest trick played by the world. I didn’t know you wanted me that way, I thought you only cared for my body, so I found another who seemed to want a connection. I should’ve told you then how I love you so, I wish I

Brixworth

Summer breeze on an upside down perspective
Warm waters in the blue distance 
Clarity still no closer than when I first arrived
How can I feel filled with unbridled joy
But still feel hollow empty tears to cry?
We walk for hours everyday
Trying to find a semblance of how we can change
We know the errors, the cause of the

Nothing's All I Got

She wouldn’t let me in
So, I stand on the porch
With all the other men
Still carrying a torch
I thought I had a chance
I thought I had a shot
I thought I’d get a dance
But nothing’s all I got

She had no open door
She always kept it locked
So, like all those before
I stand out here and knock
I tried to

Fragment of a Burning

Your voice cuts through steam—
warmth rising from my cup,
a faint scent of roasted earth.

I count the seconds between your words,
save the pause, that breath before you say rain—
like a quiet storm held inside your chest.

Three weeks of coffee shop mornings—
your shoulders slump deeper
with every mention of deadlines.
I memorize this angle,
how your jacket strains at the

Nine Times to Die

Like a cat,
I've nine times to die —
and love has taken seven.

Once,
when you said my name like it was a question.
Twice,
when you answered it with silence.
Thrice,
when you loved someone else
in front of me
like I was made of stone
instead of soul.

I keep returning —
from wreckage,
from wreck,
from wreck again.

You don't know
how many lives I’ve lost
just staying alive
next

What Do I Hold?

I see the shadow in your eyes,
The quiet war you try to hide.
Still, I stay, still I wait--
Drawn to every twist of fate.
On a bed of thorns, I close my eyes,
And count the tears I can't disguise.

What do I hold, when your hands let go?
What do I keep, when I already know?
I can't breathe in,

The Page That Listens, But Never Her

Everyone reads what I write,
Except the one it’s meant for.
She never do.
She never will.

And I ask myself,
Do these words mean anything,
Or are they just a lullaby
For a heart that forgot how to sleep?

Maybe I write to lie,
To pretend silence was a choice,
Not a sentence carved into me.

I stitched my mouth shut
With thread made of shame,
The

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