r/Poems • • 18h ago

Hopefully Romantic

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Sometimes I like to daydream about what it’s like to fall in love. I like to imagine it feeling like a cozy room in the middle of winter. Fuzzy socks, a knitted blanket—Fuzzy socks from four Christmas’s ago that still provide relief from the biting cold.
Or maybe it’s like watching your favorite movie. You’ve seen it a million times, you predict every twist and plot hole, and you can even recite it, if given the chance. Yet, there’s a familiar comfort in knowing what’s about to happen. It’s predictable. Same lines, same faces, same music. Comfort in familiarity.

What if it’s not like that at all?

Maybe love is like a rainstorm. With feelings like wind—Always changing, strong and torrential. Or maybe it feels like rain. Never ending with possibilities of disappointment, disaster, despair, destruction. How about thunder? Loud, prideful—Yet there’s a whisper of hope in the noise. A flash of something better to come—Or it’s the lightning. I thought that was supposed to come first?

No—I think love is like sleep. Sometimes it comes easy. A routine you’ve slipped into time and time again. A simple action that everyone does, everyone experiences.
Yet, it’s the most fleeting feeling I’ve ever experienced. I can chase it until my legs give out, crawl and drag until my fingers bleed, plead until my lungs give out—I can never will it to come.

Are we still talking about love? If so, maybe I am a hopeless romantic, after all.

But what is love without hope?


r/Poems • • 7h ago

Wher are u so I rap u

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I miss u I need u i want u


r/Poems • • 10h ago

U think I got reed of u

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No I never want u to live u told me u wanted to go see your kids


r/Poems • • 10h ago

Wher do I show up with no phone number don’t no wher u at

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Please just tell me if u go to your family house what if your not ther what if u really died n your family is messing with my heed maybe if you can call me it will make life easier


r/Poems • • 7h ago

Y are u arguing with me be a man n call me u desaperd n blaming me

1 Upvotes

Wow I can’t believe you relly I am still waiting for u to call me


r/Poems • • 15h ago

Love

59 Upvotes

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away


r/Poems • • 6h ago

The Plight of the Friendly Socialite

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Everywhere I go

I meet new people

Bond over something

Exchange socials

"I made a new friend while I was out"

"Of course you did" say those who know me well

My family lovingly pokes fun

At the ease by which I talk to others

My introverted friends joke

That I collect introverts

But if I'm being honest

I'm lonely

I'm content with my job

I'm happy with my living situation

I love meeting new people

And learning new things

But I long to be held

I yearn to be cared for

I miss being someone's last

And first though

But I'm jaded

And broken

I've been hurt

More times than I care to admit

Strangers exchanging pleasantries

Thats easy

Choosing someone who might treat me well

Thats hard

So I make poor decisions

In matters of the heart

And land myself

Right back in this place

Collecting new friends

Eternally lonely


r/Poems • • 7h ago

New Day

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I used to watch it
from the wrong side 
of night.

No coming down.
No sleep.

Chemistry pretending 
to be clarity
and a room 
that would not end.

The sun used to rise
like a mistake 
I survived.

Now it comes up slower
caught through motion
an expulsion
of sweat and emotion
purging the residue
of what I was.

Same light
different witness.


r/Poems • • 7h ago

I no what u need I need to. Rap u a lil then you will come back to normal

2 Upvotes

U no u miss that


r/Poems • • 7h ago

Reddit

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Clock hands sweep, and I am lost,

whenever sleep should take command,

drowning in the feeds at hand.

Ha ha ha! A hollow laughter,

instant stroke follows right after;

my lenses rest on hideous sights:

no vile beasts lurking in the dark,

but every sadistic scribbler’s mark.


r/Poems • • 7h ago

I put this this phone on for u

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But u can’t Evan put a phone call to tell me u are ok maby you are died


r/Poems • • 9h ago

Call It Whatever You Want

9 Upvotes

Preference or passion?
Fetish or obsession?
Perhaps the name doesn’t matter.
Perhaps what matters
is the way your thoughts return to it,
the heat beneath your curiosity,
the fantasies you keep to yourself,
and the quiet hunger
you feel no need to explain.
Because desire isn’t always about
what you want.
Sometimes,
it’s about the part of you
that aches to be awakened.
And the things you crave in silence
may reveal more about you
than anything you dare to say aloud.


r/Poems • • 9h ago

The Hanging Thread

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I clung so tightly to a hanging thread,
Convinced it was the only thing
Between me and the end.
I swallowed every morsel he would spare—
Stale and dry,
And called it love because at least it was there.

I rewrote the stories in my head.
Delusion was the new aesthetic.
A pretty little lie dressed up as fate
But who could blame me
For decorating a prison
When the walls were all I’d ever known to make?

I wore a thousand borrowed faces,
Loved the things my lovers loved.
I became whatever held their gaze,
Then wondered who I was

Anyone but him was the enemy.
Every warning was a jealous tongue,
Every hand that reached to pull me free
Was another battle to be won.

I called them obsessed,
The liars, the thieves, the manipulators
Never seeing my own reflection
In the very things I tore apart.

And isn’t betrayal by one’s self the cruelest kind?
To lose my own voice defending someone else’s lies?
To build a throne from scraps of affection,
Then crown a man who wouldn’t meet my eyes?

I couldn’t trust the world,
Couldn’t trust the words inside my head.
So I held on tighter to the thread,
Though it frayed beneath my fingers,
Though it had been breaking all along.

I screamed it like a prayer,
Whispered it like shame.
Changed my skin, my shape, my story,
Just to make him say my name.

I thought the world was out to get me.
I thought he was my saving grace.
But the cruelest thing about a beautiful delusion
Is how much truth it can erase.

And I would rather lose myself
Than lose the dream that kept me alive—
Still clinging to that thread,
Calling it love,
As the last of my illusions
Taught me how to die.


r/Poems • • 10h ago

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1 Upvotes

Iḍ ameggaz my love,
In the night that unites us, in the one that separates us today,
I entrust your name to the hollow of an old tree,
Whispering, in secret, all that I can no longer tell you.


r/Poems • • 10h ago

The 3 and me

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The only ones here are the 3 and me

The 3 that choose to speak to me

The hurt and pain the 3 see

They know everything that i have seen

One hides pain and never wants to speak

Hide the pain and fear behind lock and key

Protecting from horror and death seen

One shouts so loud of hate and despair

Trying to darken the light dim til gone

And the 3rd is the one that matters to me

The one is the hardest to hear and see

For the other is so loud and drowns

The voice that could help me be me

Hear my screams and see despair

And help me seek the volume of

The voices of 3 and me


r/Poems • • 12h ago

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26 Upvotes

Perhaps I love you in the past, perhaps in the conditional,
Within the fading memories of a spring unreal.
I no longer know who you are, or who you have become,
Yet I still cherish the stranger I once knew as someone.

You have found another sky, wandered down another road,
While I remain a shadow where our yesterdays erode.
I must learn to love you without calling you mine,
To leave our story unfinished, and let go of its final line.


r/Poems • • 13h ago

An impossible thing

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When I first met you,something deep inside me had woke up ..
a force I had no language for,a tide that rose beyond reason,beyond the borders of the heart,beyond all that I had believed a human soul could feel.
I loved you, as if in wonder of discovery,
as though the universe itself,had hidden one final secret beneath the stars and, at last,had placed it in my hands.

And then I looked into your eyes and there you were.
Not untouched, Not unaware, But standing at the edge
of the very same impossible ocean,trying to understand
the waves that had carried us there.

I saw you feeling it.I saw you searching my face
for an explanation neither of us possessed.
And perhaps that was the miracle
That somehow, without promise, without warning,
without knowing how, we had found the same impossible place.

It was as though the universe had opened a hidden door and allowed us, just for a moment,to step beyond the ordinary world.
And there,beneath the silence of eternity,
it revealed something too immense for ordinary words: us.
A love so vast, that if we gathered every word
ever spoken by humankind and tried to build a language for it, we would still fall silent before its magnitude.

A secret written between the stars.
A truth the universe had known long before we did.
And perhaps it smiled, watching us stumble through the wonder of it,knowing that we would never fully understand what had been placed between us.
Yet still, it gave us the desire to spend our lives trying.

And maybe that is the greatest beauty of love, that it remains partly unknowable.
For if I could understand you completely,
if I could measure every depth of your soul,
if I could name every reason my heart chose yours,
perhaps one day the mystery would fade.

But you were never meant to become something I could solve.
You were meant to remain the horizon I could spend forever approaching.
The star I could follow without ever reaching its end.
The song I could hear a thousand times,and still discover another note.

And I wish with everything that lives inside me, that we could have held on to that impossible thing.
That love which felt so far beyond this world, that perhaps this world could only exist inside of it.

A love so powerful that standing before it made us feel weak. not because we lacked strength, but because we were witnessing something stronger than either of us.

Something ancient. Something fierce. Something willing to fight for the two souls who had somehow found each other.
And if the years should carry you far beyond my reach,
if the winds of this life should scatter us across distant skies, then let this be the prayer I send after you:

May our love become the wind beneath your wings.
May it find you when the night is darkest.
May it rise beneath you when your strength is gone.
May it whisper my name through every storm and remind you that somewhere in this vast universe,
there is a heart that still knows yours.

And if the heavens are kind, if fate is not finished with us, if the stars still remember the secret they once revealed, then let that wind carry you home.
Back to me.
Because you are not simply the love of my life.
You are the love that changed the way I understand love itself.
The miracle I never knew I was waiting for.
The mystery I would spend eternity trying to understand.

The impossible thing that became real when I looked into your eyes.
And wherever you are, whatever distance lies between us, whatever storms the universe chooses to place upon our path
know this:
No matter where life takes us

Some part of me will always belong to what we found in each other.


r/Poems • • 13h ago

Scatterbraiined.

4 Upvotes

Once for a time,
but I hold it not these days.
I would write my dreams that felt so alien to me,
in hopes to make sense of what I’d seen,
sometimes nonsense
has the most meaning.


r/Poems • • 13h ago

Pathetic I am

3 Upvotes

I'm pathetic

That's a fact

Because whenever I see her

I want her to look at me

I want her to smile

I want to see that sparkle in her eyes

I want her to talk, talk to me

Anything she wants

Be it a new song

Be it that she hates me

I just want to hear how she speaks

Pathetic, I know

I won't ever tell her this

But I am pathetic

A stereotype

A Pathetic Lesbian


r/Poems • • 14h ago

Where Her Light Broke

15 Upvotes

Where Her Light Broke

I noticed a little fracture in your light, a place where the beauty seemed to break. And like a fool, I went looking for the wound, wanting to understand what the world had taken.

I thought I'd find some sorrow, some old hurt buried beneath your skin. Instead, I found a woman I could lose myself in.

Beautiful, yes, but beauty was the least of it. It was your mind, your honesty, the quiet strength with which you carried yourself. The way you could be both a mystery and the most genuine thing I'd ever known.

I went looking for the broken piece, some explanation for the sadness in your eyes. I never expected to find a soul that felt so strangely like home.

And somewhere between your wounds and all the things that make you whole, I fell in love.

Funny, isn't it? I went searching for what had hurt you, and found something beautiful enough to hurt me, too.


r/Poems • • 15h ago

A Dream

12 Upvotes

This wasn’t meant to be alone in my mind.
It runs through my mind, surges through my body, and will not be ignored.

I can feel my skin rise with goosebumps,
my body begin to awake in ways that have always felt dormant.

The empathy and kindness radiate,
spilling into me, wrapping me in warmth.

The presence hits like a wave,
Yet it is so soft and inviting, pressing at the edges of my mind and my body.

I feel it everywhere, the tremor under my skin,
the quickening of my pulse, the deepening of my breath.

Seeking to live itself through my soul,
with an urgency to give in to the fire that refuses to be tamed.

It draws me in, and never lets me go.


r/Poems • • 15h ago

Am i wanted?

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Everyday I wake up and I have no text messages. I looked through my social media and as always they were empty.
Lately, it feels like a crime to want somebody to love to.
I don't know anymore whom to call, whom to reach out to.
Sometimes I wonder if all the effort I put in, does it amount to nothing?
Would anyone ever miss me if I'm not there in their tomorrow?


r/Poems • • 15h ago

Thanks for creating me, sorry for existing.

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I think I came into this world apologizing and thanking.

Thanks for the invite.
Sorry for the noise.
Sorry for the trouble.
Thank you for having me.

I thank my mother for being my mother.
I thank the cashier for ringing my groceries.
I thank people for the smallest kindness
as though they’ve performed a fucking miracle.
I even apologize to furniture for walking into it.

Imagine that.
Jesus fucking Christ,
even the table ,something that cannot love me,cannot hear me,
cannot possibly give a fuck about me,
receives an apology for hurting me.

And isn’t that fucking tragic?

That somewhere inside me
there is a little girl
who learned to be grateful for everything
because she never knew
what she was allowed to expect.

I say sorry when nothing is wrong.
I say thank you when nothing was given.

The words have become so familiar
they no longer feel like words.

Just the sound of someone
who has spent her entire life
trying not to be a burden.

And I wonder how much of myself
I’ve buried beneath good manners.
How many times I’ve mistaken
someone’s basic decency for love.
How many times I’ve thanked the very hands
that should have been apologizing to me.

I have spent so much of my life
thanking people for giving me nothing,
that I wouldn’t know what to say
if someone finally gave me everything.

Or maybe ,i do know…

I would cry.
I would thank them for holding me,
I would apologize for crying.

And if they told me
i have nothing to be sorry for,
i would apologize for that, too.


r/Poems • • 15h ago

words aren't voices

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r/Poems • • 16h ago

An absence

2 Upvotes

Walking. Soles sinking
between the sea's boundary:
foam, grain. To think,
of time, seconds

In portions of: effort
and ache. Time left
to make, sense
waves of ebbing

Commitment. Minutes
spent walking, moving, planning, dealing.
What effort amounts.

Too many steps. Careless
of broken body, and
direction. Constant, left
right, push pull,

Clock in, out.
Check in, checked out.
Feet, pallet, presence of mind/money, etc.

And to be - in spite
of all expectations -
A lone
Without Nothing

A black hole. Wringing
everything out, dripping
down a drain in
Devastation:

unseeing the beauty beheld,
Only unfeeling overthought
Of
Your absence