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Best Poems Written by Linette Venter

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I See You

I see you everyday waiting for a token or a glance
Waiting for a willing soul, for someone to give you a chance
The pain etched into your face of rejection day by day reflects into my heart
And I fear this cruel world with it's "no-care attitude" may tear you apart

Your eyes light up when an offering is made, I wonder
How long that light stays, before darkness tears its asunder
Taking what is given and turning it into yet another endless day
To stand come sun, rain, but yet this is your only way

Sometimes I pray for you, that you may find some peace for one night 
You have so much courage to stand there day after day fighting the great fight 
Of poverty, insecurity, looking to someone for a glimmer of hope
It amazes me that you dothis day in and day out and still manage to cope

I have no words, because that is not what you need 
Though what you need is not something I can give  
I pray that the Lord your soul will keep
Until he fetches you home to His safe, gentle arms

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Someday

Someday is such a dangerous word I heard you say 
Someday you will find me and then you will stay 
Someday you will love me and give me your heart 
But today is not someday and it tears me apart 

Someday we will be friends and lovers and so much more 
Someday you will look at me like you never have before 
Someday you will have time to make me your own 
But today there are no words of love or a home 

Someday I will be tired and I will turn and walk away
Someday you will reach for me and beg me to stay 
Someday you will care enough to be by my side 
But today you will not show it because of your pride 

Someday is dangerous as it seems so far away 
Someday there will be other things that get in our way 
So I am saying goodbye to you right now, today 
As I cannot wait for that moment when you decide its someday

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Stone

It is a shame your heart is made of stone, 
Sad that you are only flesh and bone, 
Destroying that which is not yours to destroy;
Ruthlessly playing with a loving heart like its’ some useless toy. 

You know very well what my feelings are for you 
Still you play on, never caring what your words might do. 
Would it satisfy you if I told you that you had already broken my heart?
Would it even faze you t know something I felt was special had been torn apart? 

Would it make you happy to see me go, forever gone? 
Would you still blame me, saying what I felt was wrong?
If it be that, that fills your heart with ease
Then so be it, out of love for you I will leave you in peace.

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Forbidden

Forbidden

Through the window I saw you coming, my heart was running wild
I looked at you and the love for you overwhelmed me, made me feel like an eager child
I wanted to run to you, to be in your arms held close to you, to feel you near me
Yet I hesitated for fear that you would not hold me, for fear that you would not want to be near me

I waited

You knocked, you did not open the door and I felt a pain shoot through me, you did not feel welcome to enter my domain
I invited you in and stood still, quiet and waited for you to come to me, for you to want me, all in vain
Your face changed for an instant, I saw the love shine in your eyes, then it was gone and your face was cold and stark
I felt the walls close in and though the lights were on I felt the darkness surrounding and suffocating my heart.

I breathed 

You moved towards me and then stopped a way away and without saying anything I could understand your message
I turned around, not wanting to see, not wanting to hear those unspoken words, what you might have said
I wished you would just leave and let me be, why put me through this, I wondered at the reason
You did not come closer, you said nothing, I heard you steps and as I turned I saw you leave

I reached

If I had the words I would have called you back, would have told you how much I loved you, if I had any words at all
But you have decided and your mind was made up and you were leaving, without any explanation at all
I made a sound deep in my throat as the pain inside was just too much for me and you stopped slowly turning
And for once I saw the truth you were hiding, your love, longing and the intense yearning.

I cried

Then you came closer and held me lightly at first and then your arms tightened around me
I always wondered who would be the one to first give in to this love never realising it had to be me
It occurred to me then that this was only comfort, it was not going to be allright, it could never be
And as I searched your eyes I saw the confirmation of my thoughts reflected there for me to see

I let you go

I pushed myself back and stood there wanting you to say that it is not so, that we could make it work somehow
But one cannot deny that which is over, all you can do is find a way, however painful to just let go
I said I love you and that I will love you for a long time still but that I want you to leave, just leave right now
You smiled a sad little smile knowing what my intentions were and said that if that is it then it be so

With that you left

I watched you through the window and I saw you going, my heart was totally crushed
I looked at you leaving and the love for you still overwhelmed me, making me wonder why life was so unjust
I still wanted to run to you, to be in your arms held close to you, to feel you near me
Yet I now know that the way life works is not always the way that you want it to be.

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Today

Will you ever come my way or have you already turned away
Have you found another path, another love leading you astray
Have you forgotten what is meant to be 
Have you chosen without ever including me.

You cannot love what you do not know
You cannot get credit if you have nothing to show
Yet here I am loving what I want you to be 
Looking in the mirror wondering what you will see.

Maybe tomorrow I will find what I am missing out on
Maybe tomorrow all the darkness and loneliness will be gone
Maybe tomorrow I will loop up instead of inward and grow strong
And finally something will go my way without going wrong. 

But it is still today.

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Without Words

If I couldn’t speak, what would be the purpose of breathing, 
For then I could not stop you, as you were leaving.
No words of love would I utter to make you stay,
Only silent tears as I am forced to watch you walk away.

There would be no reason for me to belong
To try and persuade you that both of us were wrong. 
To make you see sense when there is truly none
To plead for you to stay, before you had gone. 

Even now as I speak, my words get lost
And knowing myself I cannot bear the thought 
Of losing you to something which should have stayed unspoken
For now a true friendship, through a thoughtless act, is broken.

Without words I am not complete
Without words I admit defeat
Trying hard to explain what I need to say to you
But how can you answer when what you feel isn’t true.

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No Matter

No matter what I say
No matter what I do
No matter how hard I try 
Nothing is ever good enough for you.

No matter how I explain
No matter where I might think I stand
No matter how I try proving my point
Nothing will ever really make you understand.

No matter how may times I say I love you
No matter how many times I prove to you I am there
No matter how much I show you I need you
Nothing can ever truly make you care.

The point being

There will always be someone that comes between us
There will always be something better for you to do
There will always be a barrier keeping us apart
There will always be a place where I cannot reach you.

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Here Again

Here I am again, sad story repeated from the past
My soul catches its breath and the spell is cast
I yearn for this time to be different, this moment to be real 
For someone - just once, this one time - to feel what I feel. 

Hoping that maybe this time I will be someone's the one 
But the silence is an answer and my head is fighting my heart 
I am torn between what has been and is still to come 
Fearing that this time I might just completely fall apart 

I will survive, however sad, it won't break me 
I don't need someone for I am truly free 
I just wanted to badly to be part of a life shared with you 
Where our friendship and life would prove to be true.

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Nameless

But inside these words, so much is lost to the unseeing eye
And though my presence remains, my heart bids thee goodbye
Closed off to a bitter world of hurt and pain
Tears unwilling to come as a smile breaks the strain

The one they say that can bear it all 
Face all their demons and still not fall
The familiar one by my side, a guiding hand 
My worst eney now becomes my only friend 

I am surrounded, yet the lonliness eats away little by little
Until the flesh grows weak and the soul turns brittle 
And words break like mirrors in your mind cutting with might 
When the only peace is found in the darkness of eternal night 

Like acid burning inside and boiling over into an emptiness of nothing
In places where nothing pretends to be the essence of something 
Where need begins and urgency turns into searching, forever wanting 
Something that has no name, no place, no face, just a flicker of something

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Left

I have been lost ever since you left, 
Nothing seems worth a single breath.
I am still struggling every single day,
My heart cannot bear the thought that you have gone away.

If there is one wish I could wish right now
It would be to be in your arms somehow.
To claim your love and win your heart, 
To lay down my life in promise never to part.

But I am not a child, I cannot wish this wish
I cannot renew something that is finished.
I cannot live in the past, go back to where I loved you
For in real life you cannot fake what is not true.

Though I can find a hundred reasons for us to be, 
It took only one for you to leave me.
One to turn your back and walk away,
How could I compete with that to make you stay.

So here I am still going on each day
Life does not stop for one person’s sorrow, you used to say.
Somehow it has, I am trapped in the pain you gave me
Wondering how long it will take for me to finally be set free.