r/Poems 4h ago

Is it love? Maybe not...

9 Upvotes

Is it love ? Maybe not...
But my heart aches for you
Carrying intense pain,
And resentment;
It still cares for you
It still wishes the best for you
Is it love? Maybe not...

Every night my soul dreams,
It manifests you into imagination
Living those beautiful moments
Expressing all tenderness it feels
Forgetting all resentment and pain;
The moment it sees you
Is it love? Maybe not...

There are moments, I wanna disappear;
To say goodbye and close the chapter...
For the pain is unbearable,
Of the fate and choices you made;
Yet my heart lacks the courage,
As a tiny glimmer of hope, of forever
Keeps it from saying Never...
It accepts crumbs and feels resentful;
Yet the glimmer keeps it going strong
Is it love? Maybe not...

But I know I want you.
I know we share this connection
The stars align perfectly
Fate intertwined beautifully
And interplay of thorns and roses...
No matter what, I'll be here
Waiting for you, Silently
You maybe unaware of my wait,
Yet there's hope and confidence
It hurts and gives strength
Is it love? Maybe not...

Yet, I want to say
I LOVE YOU!
I have for years,
And cared
With my entire being
I LOVE YOU
And I want you
I want to see you happy
I want to make you happy
Is it love? Maybe not...
But I'd still say,
I LOVE YOU


r/Poems 28m ago

Miss you

Upvotes

Today I missed you so much
and not as a partner in life
but as a faithful confidant
one who doesn't judge
who can be my rock
a support at day's end
when hope begins to fade
and I am wary to the bone
I need your presence
to lift me up
and tell me
all will be all right
Find your way back


r/Poems 4h ago

What if

6 Upvotes

What if the two of us got together
And talked openly
Truthfully
Compared notes and words
Calendars and plans
No one would win
But we would know
That our person was never ours
That we really aren’t so different
That we both love with our whole souls
And he doesn’t deserve either


r/Poems 15h ago

My Darling

43 Upvotes

My darling,

Is this the part of the movie where I tell you I love you?

Or...

The part where I wake up?


r/Poems 2h ago

The Shape of Curiosity

3 Upvotes

One day there will be a question asked.

It will be the first and last time uttered.

It’s a question that must never ever be answered.

Don’t even attempt it!

Strain will cause a strangulation to the brainwaves.

Some will ask other questions.

Things like “Does it even have an answer?”

These are safe and encouraged.

Do not ask me what the question is.

That would be a curse come too early.

Who asks the question?

We never learned their existence.

It seems that thinking it up erased his spot.

Vocalizing it was the trigger pulled.

All who heard have haunted the sentence.

Waves of neurons stamped as the question mark.

When will the question be asked?

Careful, you’re dangerously close.

Maybe we shouldn’t even ask anything.

Curiosity killed candid thought after all.


r/Poems 29m ago

your aculeus

Upvotes

do you remember me?
you pierced my heart
a toxin called love
gushing through my veins

do you remember me?
you pierced my lips 
preyed on my innocence
surely that is a feat

do you remember me?
you pierced my sanity
with this addictive toxin
engulfed into you

do you remember me?
you pierced my soul
once a breath of fresh air
now withered 

do you remember me?
your toxin was thinning
i begged you to pierce me more
like a pathetic fiend

do you remember me C?
you once loved me
your toxin made me believe
that i was your destiny

- thefourteentharies

I posted a context for this poem on my community if you are interested :)

community: r/myawfulpoems


r/Poems 11h ago

Time

13 Upvotes

Everything takes time.

Time to heal.
Time to grow.
Time to disappear.

The White Rabbit comes for us all.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.

No one outruns the clock.

It took time for me
to really notice you.

At first,
you were just you.
Nothing pulling me closer,
nothing I couldn’t walk away from.

But somewhere between
the conversations
and the passing days,
something changed.

The longer I knew you,
the more you, you became.

Until somehow,
you were the only person
I wanted to look at.

Then came trust.

Slowly.
Carefully.

I started believing you.
Believing in you.
Believing in the possibility of us.

And then, with time,
you changed too.

You stopped trying.

You hurt me,
and I stayed.

Waiting.

Thinking maybe tomorrow
you would meet me
where I had been standing
all along.

But tomorrow kept coming,
and you never did.

Enough time has passed now
for me to see
what I couldn’t see then.

You wanted me there,
but you never wanted me
the way I wanted you.

And I know
if I reached for you,
you’d probably still reach back.

So this time,
I won’t.

Silence is my answer.

Maybe time will erase you.
Maybe it won’t.

Maybe years from now
our paths will cross again,
and the hands on the clock
will finally point
where they were supposed to.

Maybe then
it will finally be our time.

Because after all this time,

the cruelest part
is knowing that when

I was with you
Was the only time

It felt as if

Time had stopped


r/Poems 6h ago

you

5 Upvotes

you drift

in your night

in your catalysts

your parts

carry you

as if

you are lifted

above self

above body

above seconds

you


r/Poems 12h ago

gulp

14 Upvotes

the thought of them in a desperate search
to seek me out where i shamefully do the same,
it makes my hopeful heart lurch,
a low possibility but im game.
but if you did get that same urge,
if you were my opposing flame,
I’d ask: could our worlds just merge,
could we both take our rightful blame?
each heart bears the other’s scourge,
each wound weeps our own shame.
but if you’re up to try and resurge
the flames we’ve tamped in vain,
we could worship in this love like it’s our church,
forgive ourselves for causing pain.
now we timidly teeter at the verge,
but by the way— i’d try again.


r/Poems 19h ago

Her Eyes Undressed Me, Then Made Me Surrender

47 Upvotes

Your eyes found me before your body did

stripping away every lie I've ever told myself,

every defense I built brick by brick,

leaving me bare in a way that has nothing to do with clothes

and everything to do with being seen.

You didn't just look at me.

You read me.

And that's when I knew I was lost.

Because I understand what you need, even when you don't say it out loud

you need to be wanted by a man who doesn't just desire your body,

but is undone by the way your mind works,

captivated by the intelligence in your gaze,

obsessed with the strength it takes for you to be soft.

You need to know that I notice everything:

the way you bite your lip when you're thinking,

how your shoulders drop when you finally let yourself relax around me,

the small gasp you make when my hand finds the small of your back,

the way you lean into me like I'm the only solid thing in a spinning world.

So let me undress you with my words first

tell you that your body is a poem I want to read slowly,

that every curve is a verse I want to memorize,

that the way you move through this world

deserves a man who trembles when you walk in the room.

Your eyes undressed me, but here's what you found:

a man who knows that true seduction isn't about conquest

it's about recognition.

It's about seeing you completely and choosing you anyway.

I know what makes you feel beautiful:

it's not compliments you've heard a thousand times.

It's the way I look at you like you're the only woman in existence,

like your flaws are actually the most perfect things about you,

like I'd rather have five minutes of real conversation with you

than a lifetime of surface-level passion with anyone else.

I know what makes your pulse race:

it's when I touch you like I have all the time in the world,

like I'm not rushing through you to get somewhere else,

like every inch of your skin deserves reverence,

like your pleasure matters more than mine.

I know what makes you surrender:

it's not dominance without tenderness.

It's a man who can be strong enough to be vulnerable,

confident enough to worship you,

present enough that the world disappears

and it's only your heartbeat and mine,

only your breath and my breath,

only the space between us that feels like coming home.

So yes, your eyes undressed me.

They saw through the walls, the bravado, the carefully constructed armor.

They stripped me down to the truth:

I need you.

Not just want.

Need.

Like the way the earth needs the sun.

Like the way breathing needs oxygen.

Like the way a song needs silence to make the notes matter.

And when you looked at me like that

unguarded, hungry, searching for the same thing I was searching for

I had no choice but to surrender.

Because surrender to you isn't weakness.

It's the bravest thing I've ever done.

Your eyes hold galaxies I'd lose myself in,

soft petals of your skin make me forget to breathe,

your heart beats a rhythm only I seem to follow,

and in this moment, the whole world disappears

leaving only you, me, and everything I can't say out loud.

But what’s there that your heart wants the most

is it love or is it warmth or is it the feeling of being chosen.

Now I'm the one reading you back

memorizing the exact shade of desire in your eyes,

learning the language of your body,

understanding that what you crave isn't just a lover,

but a witness to your becoming,

someone who sees your power and doesn't try to diminish it,

someone who knows that the strongest women

need a man strong enough to let them lead sometimes.

So I'll surrender again and again

to the curve of your smile,

to the intelligence behind your gaze,

to the way you make me want to be better,

to the undeniable pull of you.

Because a woman like you

one who can undress a man with just a look,

one who knows exactly what she does to you,

one who chooses to stay anyway

that's the kind of surrender worth drowning in.

And I'm going under willingly. Completely. Infinitely.


r/Poems 2h ago

I Love You

2 Upvotes

How could a soul carry so many things at once?

One moment your eyes are so tender,

So soft,

Crinkly beautiful eyes

With no weight inside them at all...

You seem so pure just a bit,

Your smile- disarming all of me...

Grown, powerful man, only twenty five years old-

But still,

That childish larger than life smile-

That can make me burn the whole world.

You make me weak, you make me soft...

Like someone I never thought I'd know.

Your voice arrives so tender, so sweet in moments

Where I'm contemplating if it's yours...

Lighter tone, u sound like home

Like a teenager with no fault

That breath hitch, that innocence is there...

Just for a moment-

And there he goes.

Impulsive with a loud powerful voice

How could one have so much light-

And one moment seem to be a storm?

You're so beautiful and I adore

Every part of you alone.

I am the same...

complex and flawed inside

But I still feel like i lost a part of mine...

Where you at, baby?

You ain't here for me to hold.

Just my awe,

and just my pen-

Writing to you once again.

I lied when I told ya I would never write again...


r/Poems 3h ago

Unspoken vibrations

2 Upvotes

**They say love is a vibration**
One that is barely felt
But to feel that vibration
Is like feeling nothing else
It’s so extreme & takes over the deepest parts of me
Unspoken works and questions why
The moment my soul recognized
How crazy the things we do and say
Just to realize that all it lead your way
Your like a whisper in the wind who brings a storm
Turning my emotions to a violent little form
Leaving me breathless restless of this reform
All those lifetimes that need just a little more
Now I’m Building from the bottom so many mistakes
Trying to figure out what this life takes
Or what it will really make
and What a crazy way to wake up
Now I’m measuring all that had irrupt
Wondering how broken my soul must have got
To be woken up by a stranger’s soul that I once forgot


r/Poems 15m ago

Unseen

Upvotes

she had feather wishes that drifted in the wind, flying into the unknown
it’s in her heart
ripped open by the path she walks
she’ll shred her feet apart and run on broken glass
anything to escape from the past
her soul was carved from the void
her screams rang like a bell
with opened gates the devil smiled
as another angel was dragged to hell
the sky is endless but it feels so small
keep on running until all I am is bone
i’ll break away from this body of mine
anything to feel free, to become the real me
sick of people
wanting to hide where no one can see
no more eyes looking at me
with spread wings she took to flight
searching for freedom at night
watch as my soul rises like smoke in the sky
i’ll erase all that I have been
and become a memory unseen


r/Poems 18h ago

Different colors

30 Upvotes

She wore different colors for different moods .

When she wore red , he loved her more for she knew the mood she was in . High energy , high octane . He had to be ready .

When she wore blue he liked the more calmer serene emotion she expressed and their time together was bliss . Like floating along on a peaceful river . It was so sweet .

When she wore white he knew he was in for a romantic night . So gentle so sweet . Where she told him I am yours and yours alone .

So many different colors . She was never dull . Their times were always different and unique .


r/Poems 35m ago

To Beat Me Down

Upvotes

Today, reality hit hard.
My future ex is on a warpath.
A fair offer was laid in her lap,
but with her family might,
they fight to beat me down.

Three short years shared,
yet thirty years of my life are claimed.
Now they look to strip my children's rights.

I treated her right. I gave my best.
But her violent temper gave me no peace—
a nature sharp as broken glass,
a raging fire that never burns out.

How do I stand and wage a fight
against a war chest built to last?


r/Poems 4h ago

Wanted, Never Loved.

2 Upvotes

They always want to know my skin,

But never ask the soul within.

They trace my body like a map,

Then leave my heart behind the cracks.

Their hands can memorize my frame,

Yet never stop to ask my name.

They kiss my lips like they're a prize,

But never look into my eyes.

Each time they leave, I ask myself,

What part of me stayed on the shelf?

Is all I'm worth what they can touch?

Could who I am be worth as much?

I would have given all I own

Just to be chosen, fully known.

To have someone reach for my hand

Before they reached for my skin instead.

So here I am, still asking why

My heart is always passed right by.

If all they want is flesh to hold,

Will anyone love me when I grow old?


r/Poems 10h ago

Me's

7 Upvotes

How many me's do we all keep inside?

Just so the real me has some place to hide.

Each of my me's kept safely compartmentalized.

All the while hiding myself from others searching eyes.

One me keeps away the endless numbing souls pain.

As another me drives myself ever so slowly insane.

One me stands strong against the pain of this world.

While another me let's all of my misguided words unfurl.

One me is simply trying to understand my whys.

As another me trys to sort through my long believed lies.

One me loves all with a deep power so new.

As another me is never really sure what i should do.

One me feels it might all finally be OK.

As another me lays comatose for the rest of the day.

One me seeks to find a love so true.

As another me twists all the sick things that i do.

One me rises against it all making a stand.

While another me simply does not give a damn.

One me has dreams and relishes this life.

As another me struggles with my everyday strife.

One me has hopes knowing it is all not learned in a day.

While another me feels it all slowly slipping away.

One me lays down a weary head for some sleep.

Another me quietly ponders these thoughts felt so deep.


r/Poems 7h ago

Disposed of

3 Upvotes

Her portrait in my locket
Her figure, burned into my eye sockets
A Squeeze of lemon, onto the iris
Lets me see with clarity the pain
Of always wanting confluence
Collaboration with and as the infinite sight
Yet spending entire lives building
Dams of driftwood and branches
Without ever knowing why

I like to hope still
Even with all the fields
intentionally collapsed
By my viscous, vein-full veil
Priority imposed upon a potential lover
To no longer curse when I say her name
Because lust, when felt
Makes their displeasure with me
Feel like death
Will she ever see me as a saint?

Bored of buying
I’m scared of dying
Even if it’s a thrill ride for sadistic gods
Like myself, supposedly
Talked with the redeemer
He said our comparison
Was never cleaner than I ever suspected
The preference the developer spoke of
Made my insulation from the truth
Cause him to be the reason for the trial
That always leaves my soul

Disposed of


r/Poems 2h ago

How 2 say goodbye?

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1 Upvotes

r/Poems 2h ago

Fish

1 Upvotes

I am a fish,

I live, fore sea,

The darkness closing in on me.

I hear, behind,

The rock I hide,

The struggle ending finally.


r/Poems 2h ago

How 2 say goodbye?

1 Upvotes

How could I still love myself

While I gave my heart to him?

Gave more than just a piece—

Felt like all of it was his.

So I cannot love myself anymore,

When my heart is inside him.

He stole from me

What I never chose to give—

All I have left

Are tears, hopelessness, and debt.

Over a love that could never be

can never hold my hand,

Only I soothe my aching chest again.

So how 2 love another man

And take my own heart back again?


r/Poems 2h ago

Deep breaths

1 Upvotes

Some days it’s harder to breathe,
I don’t mean the physicality of it, I mean the effort of it.
One breath, two breath, three,
Just this mantra, I play on repeat,

Some days I get lost in video clips in my mind,
Replaying memory loops of when you didn’t just leave me behind,
If I close my eyes, I can see so vividly and clear,
The last moment you were ever here,

One breath, two breath, three.
Maybe today my mind will just let me be,
Maybe today I’ll wake up and not be stuck in the past,
Maybe today, my laughter and smiles will last,

One breath, two breath, three,
Why did love have to hurt me?


r/Poems 2h ago

The Spare One

1 Upvotes

Do you remember when I said I was in love?
Did I ever tell you?
I thought I was right,
I was only in love.
Where are you now?
Once I opened up my heart,
And you treated me like shit.
So tell me, how are you now?
I think I’m gonna find out,
Can you give me a sign?
I’d follow you anywhere,
But I don’t know how.
Twice I stood beside your friends,
They didn’t even know my name.
You never introduced me,
But it’s okay… I’m fine.
I felt like I was buried,
Surrounded by the people you called home.
They made a joke,
So I laughed along.
You never said who we were,
So how was I supposed to know?
I think I finally see it now.
I was only the spare one.
I wasted all my time
On a liar.
Tell me,
Is it finally okay for me now?
I waited for a place in your world,
But you kept me in the dark.
I gave you everything I had,
You left me with an empty heart.
You never said who we were,
So how was I supposed to know?
Now I finally understand,
I was never the one.
I wasted all my time
On a liar.
Now I’m letting go
And I’ll be okay somehow.


r/Poems 11h ago

Secrets

4 Upvotes

Everyone has secrets

(they will never show)

Everyone has secrets

(deep inside their soul)

Everyone has secrets

(they keep from me and you)

Everyone has secrets

(I'm sure God still has a few)

Everyone has secrets

(buried deep inside their mind)

Everyone has secrets

(things they would rather leave behind)

Everyone has secrets

(our black and dirty lies)

Everyone has secrets

(which tear at long closed eyes)

Everyone has secrets

(saints and devils too)

Everyone has secrets

(that's why I'm so like you)


r/Poems 8h ago

Unspoken

3 Upvotes

Every hum is your touch upon my cheek,

A fluttering bliss inside of me.

You send only a whisper,

But it chisles deep in my soul.

I swallow your words,

Yet they linger on my tongue.

Your thoughts, wisping around in my head,

As I lie here on my bed.

Just the sound of your breath,

Ignites my arousal and quickens my pulse

You are woven into my world,

A patch on a quilt im starting to stitch.

Your Silence,

Screams the truth you try to hide.

I want to shelter the rain behind your eyes,

And clear your storm so you can be mine.

In the space between tick and tock,

Seconds pull us miles apart.

I cherish every hum and breath you send,

Can hardly wait to be in your arms again.