Between Never and Always

She’s who I need to

Fall back to sleep,

When the world closes in

And the lights all fade

 

She’s everything to me,

Every breath, every beat.

My life, my one and only.

I refuse to accept this fate.

 

Stuck between never and always,

Hoping for a dream to seize.

Too afraid to grasp it in my palms,

As if my zeal will cause it to break.

 

But each moment I wait,

Every moment I crawl toward the goal,

She’s slipping far, far away.

I’ve spent all the words one can say.

 

Exhausting each phrase,

Each permutation of stylistic prose.

Performing a dance of words,

But it mattering not to her.

 

She is above my mere letters.

Untouchable, unattainable.

Stuck between never and always

And I too indecisive to make the difference

 

For after my diction is exhausted,

Poetry uttered and dismissed-

I have no more to offer than a need

A bleeding need for her

 

Cause she’s all I need to,

Fall back to sleep.

When life slips underneath,

And I fade between never and always.

Reviews

[Ariana Omnomnom]

This poem perfectly expresses how I felt when my ex left me. I wrote so much poetry when he broke my heart, and that heartbreak lasted 6 months. I love your flow and style. Good job!