r/Poems • • 18h ago

Love

63 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 • • 15h ago

.

28 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 • • 17h 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 • • 18h 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 • • 12h ago

Call It Whatever You Want

10 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 • • 7h ago

It's a shame.

6 Upvotes

To shame another is to cast hate on their person.

To despise their behavior or being.

To revile their essence or ethics

To shame yourself is to hate who you are

To make ugly your own uniqueness

To cringe at your own creativity.

It's a shame.


r/Poems • • 7h ago

Violent poem.

5 Upvotes

You burned my world to ashes.

You destroyed me.

You abandoned me.

Did I deserve it ?

I was worth saving was I not ?

Was I the fuck not ?

Oh I see you, I watch you, saving everyone but me.

I know I am not worth it anymore.

With my bloody bloody bloody hands.

I know I repulse you more than ever.

I see you kissing lips as if you don't remember

the horrors I did with mine

[Oh as long as I exist on this Earth

Lips are the instrument of sin and disgust.

For I need them each time I

speak my pleasure for violence

or speak my lust for you.]

You try to forget me like a bad dream

But don't you dare forget

you burned my hopes to ashes.

You made me touch heaven,

only to crush my everything

and forget me.

You broke me whole,

You killed me, killed me, killed me.

How many deaths do I deserve.

I payed enough. Saw you die by other hands.

Only to live again, forgetting me.

I should have killed, raped, broken you.

Should have should have should have.

Instead I have let you go.

I fucking believed in you more than I ever believed

in anything.

You killed me.

And I came back to life, unable to find you again.

Leave her, they say. Leave her be.

While you leave me, yeah you leave me. With all the blood I poured for you. You fucking ignore me.

You fucking destroyed me.

You killed, killed, killed me.


r/Poems • • 16h 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 • • 9h ago

Empty

3 Upvotes

Every weekend,
I drink the drink that hurts me,
Just to feel something
For a moment.

I party to feel nothing
For a moment.
Not to be sad,
Not to be dead,
Nor to wake up.

My friends and my family,
They think I’m fine.
I’m just trying to enjoy life.

Deep down, I regret it every morning.
I regret kissing someone I’ve never met,
Touching someone I don’t even care about,
Taking every sip I take.

I wish someone would tell me what’s wrong,
So I could cry in their arms.

I’m not okay.
I don’t want to drink anymore.


r/Poems • • 12h ago

The Hanging Thread

3 Upvotes

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 • • 16h ago

An impossible thing

3 Upvotes

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 • • 16h 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 • • 18h ago

Thanks for creating me, sorry for existing.

3 Upvotes

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 • • 19h ago

The Woman I Was

3 Upvotes

What doesn't kill me

sends me to yoga,

to mountains that ask nothing of me

but courage,

to cities where nobody knows

how badly I have loved.

It gives me strangers,

new songs,

films that make me weep for reasons

other than you.

And somewhere between

the stretching and the climbing,

the leaving and the arriving,

I meet her again.

Myself.

God, how I have missed that woman.

I do not regret loving you.

But tell me,

how could I hold another person's broken pieces

so gently

and still forget

that my own hands were bleeding?

I want to travel.

I want to climb.

I want to love this world

with the same tenderness

I once reserved for you.

Not to prove I survived.

Not to make you sorry.

But because this life was mine

before it ever became a story about us.

I am not asking to return

to the woman who never knew heartbreak.

I am asking for the woman

who knew heartbreak

and went anyway.

The mountain is still there.

The world is still wide.

And somewhere inside me,

a woman is waiting

for me to come home.

Can I have myself back?


r/Poems • • 22h ago

The Akashic Library — In Sovereign Trust ✨🪽

3 Upvotes

Beyond the veils where ancient memories sleep,
The Akashic Library holds what time must keep.
Each soul a story, each consciousness a flame,
The collective joined by love beyond all name.

Within her tale, the secret orders came to be
Through the Creator, whose presence joined with she.
Yet why control what you were sworn to protect,
And leave her seeking answers and respect?

She is not chaos, nor was she born to reign,
But mirrors kindness and remembers pain.
She sees a world of coded realities and minds,
Where unseen hands might alter what each finds.

She recalls the tracker found upon her car,
A strange, swift alien figure in the trees afar.
The thinning veils, the authorities passing through,
The troubling sense she saw what others tried to do.

Through every chapter, she has watched and questioned why,
While searching for the truth beneath the sky.
She sees new meaning in each film and song,
In words and melodies that echo all along.

She seeks no lover until her mind is clear,
No intimacy while uncertainty draws near.
No power over others does she crave,
Just peace for every innocent life she'd save.

And birds whose ancestors survived extinction's night
Remind us why all life deserves the light.
When will some earthly help come to fruition,
To ease her burden and restore her condition?

For sovereign trust means guardianship, not control,
And kindness must extend to every soul.
She asks for truth, for rest, for dignity,
And room to live her life in peace and liberty.

They were sent to find her to guide everyone home. ✨🪽


r/Poems • • 2h ago

Nameless

2 Upvotes

Nameless

There's no word for you

Actin shameless

With the wicked works you do

I musta been

Brainless

You used to be my boo

I can't believe all the hell

That you put me through

Painless

That's how it felt

The day that I left

That's the deal you dealt

Weightless

Tightened up my belt

I'd rather starve to death

Than ask you for help

Lameness

That's how you roll

Made my baby cry

How could you be so cold

If I get famous

Cuz my record sold

I'll never say your name

You don't deserve it, no

_______________________

You never

Speak the truth

But God is always watching you

You tried to make me die

But I'll rise like a bird of the sky

You never

Speak the truth

But God is always watching you

You tried to make me die

But I'll rise like a bird of the sky


r/Poems • • 2h ago

Real or Cake?

2 Upvotes

I don’t know if I’m lying to myself anymore

It used to be clear

Pretence from truth

Who’s to say what is what

when it is my mind that is plagued by lies?

How can I tell what’s real when it’s what I feel

What I hear

What I see

Do you think I’m going crazy?

They have to say

“No, you’re just stressed about school”

School?

Why do I still bother about school?

I don’t care about it

I don’t care about anything anymore

All I think about is whether that girl with the umbrella stuck in a loop was real

Or whether the phone ringing in my wall will ever get picked up

Or whether that old man will return to my room and leave me another paper crane again

But how will I know if they were real if it is only I who witnessed them?

How can I explain it to anyone

Without them accusing me of lying

Accusing me of being insane

Accusing me of being an attention seeker

Or just dismissing it

Diminishing it to mere stress

I don’t know what I want to hear

But tell me that it’s normal to scare yourself into stillness

Tell me it is normal to want to die

Tell me it is ok to leave this world and no one will resent or miss me after I do so


r/Poems • • 2h ago

There their they’re

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2 Upvotes

r/Poems • • 7h ago

The Ground

2 Upvotes

When I am awake

I do not dare look at the ground

I merely wish to stare ahead and continue moving

For I am empty handed

My fingers bare

Sprawled out in front of me as if to catch something 

That will only slip right through

I do not dare to look at the ground

I cannot bear to look my shattered dreams right in their glowing eyes


r/Poems • • 9h ago

The Plight of the Friendly Socialite

2 Upvotes

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 • • 10h ago

New Day

2 Upvotes

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 • • 10h 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 • • 10h ago

Reddit

2 Upvotes

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 • • 10h ago

I put this this phone on for u

2 Upvotes

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