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Lina Jan 2015
If my heart was a bouquet of flowers,
The pungent smell from sitting too long would be their scent.
If life was a box of chocolates
Mine would be left with only white chocolate and mint.

If you were a type of wine,
You’d be the dry kind that burns my throat.
If our relationship was coffee,
It would be tainted with burnt espresso.

But I…I’m like a bird.
The type of bird that comes back home.
And you are the eagle.
Always wanting to be alone.

All I ask for is attention…
Love isn’t money, it’s time.
Lonely, sad, unloved…
All of these feelings are mine.

You never seem to care.
I could cry and you would laugh.
I guess I could leave again.
Just to turn around and come back.
Lina Jan 2014
I don't always know what I want.
I can't always love who I am.
But how can one love themselves...
If no one has loved them?

How can one know what affection is
If it has never been shown?
Can that being give someone their heart
Indefinitely. Not merely on loan?

Is it a process? Or is it a gift?
It sure is funny, this thing we call love.
We all say it to express a feeling...
A high, maybe adoration; just a yearning of.

I'm tired of lonely days and restless nights
Pondering this thing that may just be a myth.
Just when I think it may have found me,
I wind up harder, colder...more stiff.

All of the risks I take hoping and praying.
Only end up making it harder to trust.
So I find beauty in words, in poetry, in pain.
Because if we give up on love...
We'll have to settle for lust.
Lina Oct 2013
I remember her words to me.
"You can never like him."
I also remember the first day...
I wished it would never end.

We were so young, so free.
And decided to take a chance.
Our life was perfect...
I knew it'd be from the first glance.

But then, it happened.
We couldn't be together.
And you broke every promise;
Always and Forever?

I couldn't be mad.
I knew it wasn't your fault.
But even so...
You still broke my heart.

And now, two years later,
Here we are.
Grasping at straws...
Trying to ignore the scar.

I knew it would come to this
Because true love can't die.
I have only question...
I'll be yours...but will you be mine?
Lina Oct 2013
You don't know how much I want this...
I wish I could tell you how scared I am.
Because I'd be willing to put everything on the line,
But I don't want to get hurt again.

At first, I felt unappreciated, but honestly,
I never was able to stay mad at you for long.
And now, it's as if every wish has come true.
I feel like I'm living a love song.

But how long will it be before you leave?
Will you? Could you? Would you?
You promise that you won't...
But what will be your choice if they make you choose?

Even though we haven't been together for a while...
You're the one person I still can't get over.
I don't care about the past or who doesn't like us.
I don't even care about what you did with her...

I just want you again.
I want to love you and feel your touch.
The problem is that no matter how much I get
It will never, ever be enough.

I'll always need more of you.
Lina May 2013
It's like a tidal wave
has grabbed and swept me under.
It's mending my heart
that has been scattered asunder.
I'm drowning in an ocean
full of emotions and feelings.
But, still, the endless care
you give has left me scared and reeling.

It's like the stars
in the Milky Way Galaxy.
With every breath and every dream
I live on the hope that this isn't a fallacy.
It feels as if there are
endless possibilities and no limits.
Yet, even though I try,
I'm terrified, no matter how you spin it.

If I fall into the earth,
I'll call out and hope you hear.
I hope you stay my superman
and destroy my every fear.
I hope you never let go
if you reach out your hand to save me.
If you can save me from myself
I promise, yours, to forever be.
Lina May 2013
I promised myself
to never love a man.
I told myself
that it would only hurt.
I lied to myself
when I said I didn't love you
and that I never could.

I believed you
When you said you'd never hurt me.
I trusted you
when you said I could.
I put my faith in you
just to have you break my heart
into a hundred little pieces.

He tells me
exactly what I need to hear.
He promises me
the same things you did.
He tells me
not to worry...
but he's still not you.

He thinks you
ruined me. Maybe you did.
He says you
pushed me too far. That's true.
He hates you
for hurting me and making it hard
to ever trust again.

Because he wants my heart,
but I won't give a broken heart away.
Lina May 2013
I always say no and can usually resist,
But you somehow change my mind.
Even though my heart knows it's wrong...
You make it feel so right.

The feel of your fingers through my hair
Sends chills up and down my spine.
You can't hide the satisfaction you feel
When you say, "You'll always be mine."

The strange thing is that I know it's true.
You're the worst addiction I've had.
And even though addictions can't be good...
I never feel too bad.

So I'll take a breath and take a risk
Hoping we'll become more than friends.
But I know that after you have everything of mine...
You'll still be hers in the end.

— The End —