Unrequited

My second poem ever and my first available for anyone but myself to see.

You are my Achilles’ heel

The hiding place of my heart

The pain of unrequited love

That is so strongly demonstrated

In the desperation of how badly I want you.

 

You are the only one to completely incapacitate me

The only one to make my emotions want to be so vulnerable

A vulnerability that scares me more than any height, depth, or unknown

A vulnerability that I should never offer you

 

For you are unstable

Like the sudden crumbling of a sand castle

Built so carefully only to be torn down in moment’s time

By the crash of a sudden wave of selfishness

A victim to its own fragileness

A fragileness I saw in myself

I saw only as my feelings crumbled like that castle

In your unpredictable

Change of mind

 

You broke me

Your selfish games

Leading me on time and time again

Until I finally gave up

Like a wild animal

Who will finally shape itself to what you want it to be

 

I became your just for fun

So easily I give up the fight now

The fight for the treatment I deserve is long lost in the past hope of a naïve teenager

Now a women who is, after years,

Still stuck in quicksand of your unrelenting games

With the smallest hope that you will see me

 

See me for how much I love you

How much I would give for you

How much I would give up for you

My pride

My dignity

I would give everything for you

Author's Note

This is my first poem that I've ever let others see and my second poem ever. I really want poetry to be something I can do well in, but I know that takes time, practice, and critiquing.

Reviews

[Kat Leila]

I enjoyed the raw, savage emotion that you expressed in this poem. Very powerful and relatable.