This is a free verse poem that I wrote about my love for my ex- girlfriend.
Constructive criticism welcome.
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Baby I know it wasn’t just my love that you never felt
I know that you couldn’t feel it because you never loved yourself
But I want to show you the beauty I see in you
But that is something I find myself struggling to do
I will not feed my obsession of a girl who could never love me back
But still when I see you it becomes hard to breath
Because I only wish that you could see me
But your tunnel vision has kept me out of your sight
I don’t know how because I can’t manage to keep you out of mine
You’re a daisy among weeds
You’re the wind lifting up the trees
And god damn it,
You are the shake in my knees
Just like that, a love poem and back
I couldn’t hate you if I tried
Because trust me I have tried
And it hardly ever lasts
The memory of the taste of your lips change my mind
Convince me that I am crazy for ever expecting anything in return from you
Tells me to only give and give and give myself to you
Until I am nothing more than a memory of your past
Another piece paved into your path
Only a first kiss never your last
Throwing myself into you
Somewhere along the way I began to believe there was nothing more than you and me
Your love was all I’d ever need
So one night I held you in my arms
Your breathe heavy and my arms weak
I could no longer carry both you and me
So that is when I began to fall
You in tow all our troubles tangled together
I weaved myself so deep in you
I became attached and never knew
That I could even exist outside the idea of me and you
That’s how it began I started putting me first
You became the second verse
As I started rising up I could see you back in the dust
I tried to coax you up with me
But there simply was no harmony in you and me
It had quickly spoiled, you and me, turned to me and you
And now I stand with only me left
I’ve tried to bring you here with me
Keeping us separate entities
Because the danger in you and me
Is found in the word between us both
We were always looking for our other halves
Not realizing that if we put that much faith in you and me
When one falls down the other will as well
Together we could never be better
Because one will always be worse
The toxicity transferring between you and me
So hear me in this final verse
I love you no less
I think that we did our best
But two broken people can’t make a whole
Because they will never fit right
I’ll do my best to build me back
And keep my love I have for you intact
No matter how mad you will ever be
I still loved when it was you and me
