Unrequited Poems - Poems about Unrequited

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...

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Your voice cuts through my morning thoughts, While coffee grows cold in my hands. I memorize each word you speak— How foolish love can make demands. You mention rain and subway delays, Small troubles that fill up your day. I turn them into precious things, Though you mean nothing that you say. My friends show pictures of their dates, While I rehearse what I...

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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...

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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,...

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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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She throws herself at the feet of the unimpressed— rolling, rubbing and yowling, an opera of yearning for the neutered elite. They blink, stretch, then saunter off for another nap on the sun-pooled sill, leaving her to flirt with the legs of chairs. Bewildered by the bopped nose, the rebuffed overtures— arching and warbling, tail high with invitation— she meets only indifference or disdain. Again she circles, unsure if maybe she’s doing it...

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A mountain sits And a river flows A mountain suffers her tears And the infiltration of life Wildflowers necklace it As the goats dance up and down its rocky parts. It can wiggle off snow as well as a buffalo a gnat Knowing it will be better for the snow to leave for awhile and come back when it has changed from...

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I am to one what another is to me. The years press against each other producing sweet nectar drops of time that we have created are gone to past again. I have told you it is so and you are my witness to this ...

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"Trap—for the ones who mistake affection for devotion, and fall for voices spun from smoke. He never promised me forever. But still, I stayed… oblivious. Drunk on words, blind in the dark, begging the silence to lie" Then his words— they don’t help. They wrap around me like silk only to choke. Ancora una volta. Again. Again, I fall for the way he...

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A heart misplaced, a love unreturned, Priority given, where none was earned. I saw your worth, a light in the gray, While my own value, faded away. Thoughts of you lingered, a constant refrain, But echoes of silence, answered in vain. Convenience ruled, a fleeting embrace, My everyday longing, left without trace. No response met my yearning to know, My hopes and desires, nowhere...

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If love is... feeling unloved, anxious and starved, give my regards Does the torment of love's hate eliminate pain? If love is trembling lips and sultry eyes, upon them everlasting cries, Charcoal tears that pour What answers are there for these unwanted sores? Binding spells of the unforgiving way swells She the accuser shames with her bitter blame Aging with, until the bitter end Accusing of his unrequited love Awaits...

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You caught me smiling in a moment Because your love has made its way to my heart Into my heart You caught me smiling in a moment Because you are the one I have been waiting for Waiting for You caught me smiling in a moment As you pass me by Passing by You caught me smiling in a moment Now I am face...

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Written on April 13th 2025 for Sara Jama's Prompt The Cold Embrace of Death Reverberated within the empty chambers of my soul, As I soak my skin in a clawfoot tub, drowning in my sorrows. Daring the waves to wash me away, I lay barricaded in the bathroom with a bottle of Merlot....

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I beg Have mercy Kill this dream End my misery If you will never choose me, make it clear now Give me something real to mourn If you are destined to break my heart, do it now Give me something real to move past If you will only ever give false hope, discard me now Give me something real to end the cycle Douse the...

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I was never here for passing time, Never here for love denied. I thought we’d walk this road as one, But love has left me far behind. If I love you, how can I not break? When you are not mine to take. To watch you smile, yet stand apart, It slowly shatters my fragile heart. You say that friends we still can...

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