#loss poems on Hello Poetry

Sophie Chen Jul 18

Oh relent, relent, relent
I do promise to repent
Those bitter pills I’ve swa-llowed
Should have
Returned those debts
I owed?
Just please, don’t destroy all
that
I
have known

Came up with this on a whim

#toxic #mercy #love #hate #loss

Naavya Jul 17

The Garden Of Love

A flower oh so rare
Just one amongst a garden full
Gleaming bright like a star
Impossible to deny its pull

Caving to its beauty
Set on to find the seeds
After years of search
Heart finally found what it needs

It starts with excitement
Grows into a beautiful bloom
With lush leaves unseen
Nurtured by everything it assumes

But time of course takes its toll
Once you have it, it fades away
What once was everything in the world
Slowly becomes a far and distant sway

One missed watering
A harmless slight
Surely tomorrow
It’ll regain its might

Forgetting to nourish
Neglecting to tend
Assuming its resilience
Would never bend

But with wilted petals
It whispered goodbye
It couldn’t survive
Even though it did try

In this bittersweet garden of love
A lesson to be learnt
Just like flowers without enough care
Bonds too can be burned

#love #heartbreak #loss #relationships #lessons #nature #bittersweet #longing #metaphor

AJ Jul 17

Take the time

He was a puppy,
Blue eyes, stubby tail, floppy ears.
We walked every day
Sometimes twice or three times
And he loved every one.
Chasing squirrels, watching birds,
Looking back toward me
Showing love the way only a dog can.

He got bigger, our times together did too.
Then my little girl was born into this life
And suddenly I didn’t have time.
No time for walks
No time for lounging
No time for ear scratches watching rain
No time no time no time!

I wish I had taken the time.

Yesterday he crossed the rainbow bridge.
Seven years is entirely too few.
It felt like this could never happen
Like he’d be there no matter what
But I wasn’t there for him.
I had to say goodbye through a grainy
Video.
And now he’s gone.

I wish I had taken the time.

How many times I walked past him?
How many times I didn’t reach out?
How many times I kept on going about
My day?
But what about his day?
Wasn’t I his whole day?
Wasn’t I his morning, noon, and night?
Wasn’t my attention all he wanted?

I wish I had taken the time.

And now…
God ****** now… HOW?!
How do I explain to a 3 year old
That Duke isn’t coming home today?
That Duke’s bed will always be empty?
That Duke’s fish won’t need food in it?
That Duke’s leash will gather dust?
That we’ll never hear his ears shaking
Or his feet tapping
Or his “ahh-rooo” howling?
That he’s gone

I wish I had taken the time.

Why didn’t I just take the ******* time?

We’re on vacation this week and our 7 year old Weimaraner presented very lethargic at the boarding facility where we took him. They rushed him to the emergency vet but there was nothing they could do. So we had to say good bye to our best boy Duke over a cell phone video call. And now we’re left in shambles for what to do to handle this

#life #pets #dog #dogs #weimaraner #death #loss #sadness #worry #time

Kayla Chappell Jul 16

Orphan

You used to be my best friend,
now its like i never existed.
You used to be my best friend,
now its like you never existed.

You ran when i needed you most
Thanks for the help dad
Do you sleep peacefully?
Is there any guilt or remorse when you think of me?

do you even realize
what you did to me
when the personal creator
who birthed me
Tragically departed the earth early
only two weeks after turning 18.
You were nowhere to been seen
searching for your teen.
Her heart she let open bleed
at that fateful scene.

But if you're wondering,
Im alve and occupied,
attempting to mend these shattered pieces of mine

How could you abandon
our bond and memories so easily
Didnt even say sorry,
you still don't try to get ahold of me.

a sweet young girl
taking on a new lonely world.
Youd be proud to know,
i conquered it great
with no supports and did what it takes
to adapt, grow up and outlast.
I've matured too fast.

i forgive as a daughter
but as a parent
i can never understand
you are not a man

I forgive as a daughter
but as a father
I will never understand
abandonment as your plan
thus forfeiting being a man.

Grieving you,
but your not dead.
Your lost in your head.
18 was supposed to be when my life started
not grieving a mother
and wondering what happened to my father

i will always wonder.
Its not fair to me, nor to the men i meet,
that i want them to fill the emptiness in me
that you could easily complete.

All you have do is call me.
Grieving someone who's not even dead,
is an enitrely differnt level of grief itself.

Thanks for the help dad
i try not to be mad
but knowing you choose
drugs over me
livng on the streets
makes me wonder why i'm not good enough.
You don't even have to give that up.
Just wish youd call and say what's up.

I will do me.
You do you.
Youll wish you stayed,
Once i can fully make peace with the truth
I can be the me
that was free
and full of life
before you disrupted my upbringing.

I will rise again
like the phoenix always does.

#loss #orphan #imissme #whathappened #thanksdad #coward #drugs #streets #lostsouls #forgienesslove

Samuel Everson Jul 16

Cellophane Heartbeat

I’d like to find the words
to cut right through the muck,
but when it comes to you
you know that I’m just stuck,

I ready up the blades
and soap clean my hands,
to work toward the heart
no matter where it lands—

All the things—
We said—
Will forever be dead—

But I’ll hold on—
Instead—
You’ll always live inside my head.

I think the words mean what I mean to say.

#cellophane #heartbeat #heart #beat #love #loss #memories #old #flames #pain

déa Jul 15

untitled

a glass wing kept beating
behind the wallpaper.
i fed it honey
through the seams
and called it mine.

on the third thursday,
the moon blinked out.
you spoke in echoes,
spilled mirrors
across the floor.
i swept them up barefoot.

every silence
was a string in my mouth.
i pulled it,
thinking it might unravel you.
instead, it sewed me
shut.

the garden grew
upside down.
i watered the roots
from the sky.
you wrote your name
on the underside of a cloud
and said you never meant permanence.

meanwhile,
i lived beside the sound
of an unopened door—
**** warm,
hinges aching.

you said the map burned.
i said the fire had your handwriting.

now, the bird has left the wallpaper.
it’s made of smoke and backward time.
i watch it spiral
into the somewhere
you didn’t take me.

just went thru something and this is about that i guess

#breakup #sad #loss #hurt