Unrequited Love Poems - Poems about Unrequited Love

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

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

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

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,

Seduction Interruptus

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

A Mountain’s Idea of Love

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

Sweetest Trap

"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

Chaos In Her Heart

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

A Soliloquy of Unrequited Love

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.

Mercy

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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