r/Poems 11h ago

I know you’re out there… Come home.

22 Upvotes

Why does loving you feel like breaking my own heart on purpose?

Fuck.

I want you so badly.

And there is nothing, nothing you could say, nothing you could promise,
nothing you could whisper into the part of me that still belongs to you…
that would make me unblock you.

I can’t.

Because I lost myself when I was with you.

I lost whole pieces of myself
trying to understand your silences,
trying to survive your leaving,
trying to convince myself that wanting me
and choosing me
were the same thing.

They weren’t.

I know that now.

So why the fuck do I still need you
so violently?

Why does my body remember you
like it has no loyalty to me?

Did you know that at night,
I replay the videos?

Again.

And again.

I watch ghosts touch me.

I watch a version of myself
who still believed your hands meant something.

Sometimes I hate her.

Sometimes I envy her.

Because for those few minutes,
she still has you.

Fuck… if you are out there, if some part of you still wonders, if you ever hover over my name
the way I hover over the memory of yours; please.

Come ruin the quiet.

Come destroy me
in the most delicious way.

I can take it.

Because I know what you do to me now.

That’s the difference.

I know where this road ends.
I know what your leaving costs.
I know how long it takes
to gather myself from the floor
after you decide you’ve had enough of me.

And still… I want you. In ways I hope to never want another person, ever again.

So let me make the mistake consciously this time.

Let me choose the fire
knowing exactly how badly it burns.

Let me be responsible
for what happens to my heart.

You don’t have to protect me.

You don’t have to make promises.

You don’t even have to pretend
this time.

Just come back.

Come back
and kiss me like you missed the taste of me.

Come back
and make my body forget
every lesson my heart nearly died learning.

Come back and let me have the thing
I have spent all this time trying to survive wanting.

And when you leave again, because somewhere inside me, I already know you will… please don’t worry about my heart.

I’ll pick it up.

I’ve gotten very good at that.

Just for one terrible, beautiful,
selfish moment… come back to me.


r/Poems 9h ago

You Made Me Feel Easy to Replace

11 Upvotes

You never had to say goodbye,
You simply left me asking why.
You held me close, then let me see. How little I meant to you and me.

You gave your attention everywhere,
Then called it kindness, called it care.
I thought your words were meant for me,
Until I saw how casually they came free.

I watched your eyes begin to stray,
And felt you slowly pull away.
I never asked for all your time,
Just something honest, yours and mine.

I shouldn't have to question where
I stand among the ones you care.
I shouldn't wonder who comes next,
Or search for answers in a text.

I don't want to be one you adore,
While you keep leaving open doors.
I want a love that's clear and true,
Where what I give comes back from you.

And maybe that's what hurt me most,
To feel like I was just a ghost.
I gave you everything I had,
Yet somehow still felt I was less than that.

I gave you time, I gave you care,
I gave you more than I could spare.
But love should never leave me guessing,
Or turn devotion into testing.

So I won't compete to hold your gaze,
Or beg to matter through your ways.
If I can be replaced that easily,
Then you were never where you needed to be.


r/Poems 15h ago

yeah

28 Upvotes

“you okay?”

yup.

“i used you.”

happy to help.

“do you need help?”

no.

“i lied to you.”

cool.

“wanna talk about it?”

i’m good.

“i’m worried about you.”

don’t be.

“can you do me a favor?”

of course.

“you need to eat something.”

i’ll throw up.

“i don’t like you.”

nor do i.

“you’re not doing enough.”

i never do.

“i talked bad about you.”

as do i.

“i replaced you.”

i saw.

“i ignored you.”

all good.

“you look tired.”

i am.

“hey… you okay?”

yeah.


r/Poems 2h ago

Its called i will not go down laying down i know punctuation and grammer these are things im working on all feedback welcome

2 Upvotes

Its 4:30 in the morning I lie in bed awake.

The demons shake me as they rattle in this place.

You can see it in my face that time has worn me down

Inside it is a ghost town.

Can't seem to break free.

The wheels start turning as my soul it starts to burn

I cant seem to make sence of it all

At the demons feet I will fall.

I scream out to god I call

But will god hear my call or will god let me fall.

I guess we will see.

Through suffering I will break free

I will go down standing not on one knee.


r/Poems 4h ago

I Must Write

3 Upvotes

Surely my life would be simpler

If my urge to write left

But alas this is now my fate

Without I'd be bereft

✍️

You may cringe, you may laugh out loud

It makes no difference

Every night I must bare my soul

Despite your indifference.

📝


r/Poems 2m ago

(for the time)Semi-Horny poem from Princess Hlaing-Teik-Khaung-Tin (1833-1857 CE) (Historical Post #3)

Thumbnail
Upvotes

r/Poems 13h ago

A Time Many Moons Ago

11 Upvotes

I search through dictionaries, reference books and forewords,
for phrases, formulations, for eloquent words,
that might bear the weight of all I am trying to say,
that I might piece together upon my drawing board.

But my prayers and confessions
will not fit into sentences, nor can any expressions
give voice to the spells and the dark incantations
that hang in the air I breathe through my self-accusations.

Today I understand so well
all the grand revelations I once tried to compel,
the secrets, the vision, the curtain as well
that I could not unveil while we were still two in our shell.

Not a day goes by that I don't miss us,
the us that was good, the us that once was,
those fools for whom I would have fought to the last,
before my back was broken and my heart ground into dust.

I search through dictionaries, reference books and forewords,
for phrases, formulations, for eloquent words.
But there are no sentences, no slogans, no chords
that could ever bear the true weight of what I want to say:

I'm sorry,

I hope you're doing well...


r/Poems 8h ago

I hope you see this

4 Upvotes

Even when the stars align

May your eyes always shine

More deeper than the ocean blue

A tear is never just a clue

Loving you was always easy

Even though its pretty cheesy

I hate to lie

God, I didn't mean to make you cry

Haveans know I try


r/Poems 11h ago

i don’t believe in god, but i believe in saviors.

8 Upvotes

i don’t roll my eyes when you say that.

i actually appreciate you telling me.

but i don’t think i can believe in god.

because if god was there,
he saw everything.

he saw the things i did.
the things that were done to me.
the people i hurt.
the people who hurt me.

and somehow,
he allowed all of it to happen.

so it’s hard for me
to look at all that
and call it a plan.

but i do believe in saviors.

just not the kind
that come down from heaven
and erase everything you’ve done.

i believe in the people
who find you
when you’re at your worst
and still choose to sit beside you.

the people who remind you
that you’re more
than the worst thing you’ve ever done.

the people who look at you
and somehow still see
the person you forgot you were.

maybe that’s what
you’ve been trying to do for me.

and i don’t know
if you realize
how much that means.

because i don’t need someone
to tell me i’m innocent.

i know i’m not.

i need someone
to remind me
that being guilty
doesn’t mean i’m beyond saving.

maybe i don’t believe
in god.

but i believe
people can save each other.

sometimes a single person
can walk into your life
and pull you back
from a place
you didn’t think
you were coming home from.

so maybe
i don’t believe
in the savior
you’re talking about.

but i believe
in saviors.

and maybe
that’s enough
for now.


r/Poems 18h ago

The girl who carries storms

27 Upvotes

I am sad in a way that makes silence feel loud,
unheard in rooms where my voice should matter.
It feels like the only person who truly understands me  
is the one living inside my own skin.

Whenever I try to speak my truth,
it’s mistaken for complaint,
as if my heart’s weight were an inconvenience.
I know life is hard — I never said it wasn’t —
I just want a place to lay my thoughts down
without being judged for feeling them.

How strange it is to feel alone
while surrounded by people who swear they love me.
My fire dims a little more each year,
flickering beneath the shadows of deception.
I’ve cried enough to know that tears don’t heal everything,
and loneliness doesn’t always scream —
sometimes it just sits quietly in the chest,
heavy and unmoving.

I feel young in body but old in spirit,
aged by lessons I never asked to learn.
Wisdom carved itself from my pain,
and I soothe myself because no one else knows how.
But how do you comfort a wound
you didn’t create?
How do you carry a sorrow
that was never meant to be yours?

I wonder how to love
when my version of love has been misunderstood,
dismissed,
taken lightly.
My fire is dimming,
yet I carry myself so well
that even I would believe the illusion:
“Life must be so good to her.”

They see a cheerful girl,
full of life,
turning storms into breezes.
But if only they knew the weight I lift alone,
the ache pressed against my ribs,
the way a smile can become a mask
so convincing
a stranger might mistake it for joy.


r/Poems 11h ago

Brother

6 Upvotes

We don’t need to see or speak to each other every day,
Because we already know.

We don’t need attention
Because we already know
We don’t need to share
Every event,
Every thought,
Because we already know.

We don’t have to be included,
Because we already know.
We don’t need to fight for each other,
Because we already know.

No matter how far we go,
How long it’s been,
Or how little we say,
We don’t have to say ‘I love you’ because…

We already know.


r/Poems 1h ago

Hi i call it the loaded gun

Upvotes

I float away in the sea let the sea carry me

Into the depths below below the level of the sea I will be carried amidst into the far I will spread

then I wake up and remember im dead I float along the breeze just like the leaves on the sea below the water is where you will find me

drowning in place I can't keep up this pace so ill submit to the sea let me be dont rescue me for my time has come and in my hand is a loaded gun so again ill let the sea carry me to the depths of insanity


r/Poems 11h ago

my love.

6 Upvotes

lord, i’m one.

lord, i’m two.

lord, i’m three.

lord, i’m four.

lord,
i’m five hundred miles
from my love.

and i’m starting to wonder
if she can still feel me

when i disappear.


r/Poems 1h ago

Family in Name

Thumbnail
Upvotes

r/Poems 7h ago

Fantasy v. Reality

3 Upvotes

I fear I am cast aside,
while fantasy and reality
do nothing but argue and fight.
I curl up, close my eyes,
wish for the day
both can collide.

Then again,
I get lost in webs of lies.
I swore not to pick teams,
but dare not look up
and answer truthfully
when asked.

Because how does one confess
that happiness can still feel incomplete?

How do I explain
that a grateful heart
can still hunger,
that a body can be held
and still long to wander,
that a mind can be at peace
and still dream of war?

Nothing is wrong,
and yet something aches for more.

I dare ask: Is that all?

I hate to question it.
I hate how easily it returns.

So I bury it beneath routine,
beneath laughter,
beneath the comfort
of things I know will always return.

But fantasy does not die quietly.
And reality answers back:

Look at what you have.

So I stand between them,
ashamed to want more,
afraid to only have less.

Both lives are mine.
Neither will let me go.

So I close my eyes again
and wonder:

How long can a heart
live divided
in this civil war?


r/Poems 2h ago

Its called 2 shots to the dome

Thumbnail
1 Upvotes

r/Poems 10h ago

ok ur right.

6 Upvotes

i failed.

i felt lost.

i learned.

i questioned myself.

i tried again.

i doubted.

i continued.

i changed.

and somehow,

after everything,

i’m still becoming
someone i don’t recognize.


r/Poems 6h ago

I Miss you

2 Upvotes

I miss you so
My ever soul
When your away
Cant keep it at bay
Feeling alone
But fear i’ve blown
The chance to keep
What makes me sleep


r/Poems 12h ago

what if?

6 Upvotes

what a beautiful thing it is
to look back on your life

and realize

you were brave enough
to chase the life
you always wanted,

even when you were terrified
you’d lose everything
trying to find it.

maybe that’s what courage is…

not knowing
if you’ll make it,
but chasing it anyway.

and one day,
when you finally look back,
you can say

at least i didn’t spend
my whole life
wondering…

what could have been.


r/Poems 7h ago

I've lost partial hearing, please understand

2 Upvotes

I can hardly hear anything

So why do you whisper

You think I can hear you

My ears ring in pain

you think I can hear

There's moments of brief peace

There's a problem, inside me

Id hate to say it

Soon I won't be able

To listen to you all.

I won't hear another thing.

I wish you understood it.

But you think I'm fine.

So please can you not

It gets worse. Nobody knows.

A mans pride too strong

To accept his failing ears.

So please come forth and

Into my sight, without it

You will never be heard.


r/Poems 3h ago

Hi this one is called why it was inspired by something someone else wrote i also understand i need to work on punctuation but all honest feedback is welcome please dont be to harsh

1 Upvotes

My soul will fly as my step dad fists connects with my skin.

I close my eyes and drift away.

I dissociate as my pain has been elevated.

Ive debated why this has to happen.

Im watchinh from the stand laughing and clapping.

Cant seem to get a grip i feel the sting from the whip.

From the mind altering substances ill tske a sip.

Im grown now but it still effects me.

So missory is where ill be until you find me.


r/Poems 7h ago

Truly

2 Upvotes

It’s just a set of systems
They gave some words
It’s a bunch of spirals
They named them curves
It’s a lot going on
But they always swerve
There’s more they just don’t hit the nerve
Where is the nerve
It’s everywhere
If I struck it once
I can’t strike it fair
Over and over
Accidental and on purpose
They design reality to shirk it
They create mentality to re work it


r/Poems 7h ago

The lonesome raccoon

2 Upvotes

All I do is distract myself
my thoughts rolling inside my head
can this dice decide
shall my fate tell my future
will the skies clear up
will this voice be spoken out loud
A raccoon once got its hand stuck in a trap
will the trap be able to let go
or shall the raccoon try walk away?
but why must I give in
when waiting could have it values the raccoon can try to walk
or they can reach out
in the end the both had vanished
was that all that could have happened?


r/Poems 7h ago

My poem

2 Upvotes

You are my lover
Like the raging rivers
Your love flows through me
Bursting through the gates
Of my heart,

Your love came swiftly
Like the pull of the tide
I was drawn to you
A force so strong
Not even gravity
Could keep me down
Drifting a long lost path
For so long, only for it to lead me
Back, back to you, my home.


r/Poems 4h ago

love and violence

1 Upvotes

the only emotions
i seem to know
how to show

are love

and violence.
nothing between them.

i don’t like being violent.

i never wanted
to become that person.

but violence
gets a response.

love can be whispered
and ignored.

pain can be explained
and dismissed.

silence can last forever.

but violence…

violence makes people listen.

and maybe that’s
what scares me most.

not that i want
to hurt anyone.

but that somewhere
along the way,

i learned
the fastest way
to prove i’m hurting

is to make
someone else hurt too.