It is hard to live without the one you love but living with someone you don't love is perhaps far more difficult.
Knowing I've sacrificed
The happiness within
We all have our reasons for the sacrifice but no matter how big those reasons are, you never stop thinking about what could have been had you been true to your heart.
It was then that I realized
This feeling within
Was merely settling
With what I was given
To settle with what we've been given, we kill our feelings, and the wishes of our heart
So many people spend their entire lives this way. Knowing that they are living a lie and yet not being able to do anything about it.
"Knowing I've sacrificed
The happiness within"
I know EXACTLY how you feel. It is the most devastating thing ever, to feel you have deceived yourself so well, that the you who SHOULD be has gone and was replaced by someone else.
"Was merely settling
With what I was given"
And ^^^, that settling, when you realize you've done it, it's enough to take any remaining life out of you.
"But I do know one day
I will be happy again
For one day I'll be true
To myself, to my heart"
I feel you. This poem made my heart cry. How sad...I can totally relate. I hope you find your heart again, and you are true to it. *hugs*
You deserve to be happy, and if your relationship is not providing that, it is essential you either addres it or move on. I know it can be hard out there to find what you are looking for, but better to look and look and never find then to settle on something less. I would rather be alone and looking for happiness than settle for what will become a time when we just go through the motions..but the poem is very well written and is engrossing and not at all depressing, hell, read some of my s**t and you will see depressing, lol...Great poem!!!
I like how the length and variety of your dialogue with yourself shows me you consider the many facets of an issue. I came to the realisation that I could only stop this game and save my "little ones" by not telling lies. For if you think that even a small lie is acceptable, you open the door to eventually lying to yourself. Truth and deception are reflective acts. You portray it prosaically here with enough choice in your words it comes across as poetry. Well done!
Loneliness becomes conscientious when suddenly introduced to emotional kinship. Hopefully, all the sadness will be at least diluted by a conviction that the ones we do love deserve our utmost sacrifice.
Very honest self-analysis, touching the very center of love and life.
This is beautifully sad and I loved the overall structure of this piece the most..
It's really very hard to have a living like this..
There is a supreme reality in this write, which I loved the most...
Yet, it is somehow very sad and painful but still it ends up with-
" But I do know one day
I will be happy again
For one day I'll be true
To myself, to my heart."-This is such a beautiful ending :)
It is hard to live without the one you love but living with someone you don't love is perhaps far more difficult.
Knowing I've sacrificed
The happiness within
We all have our reasons for the sacrifice but no matter how big those reasons are, you never stop thinking about what could have been had you been true to your heart.
It was then that I realized
This feeling within
Was merely settling
With what I was given
To settle with what we've been given, we kill our feelings, and the wishes of our heart
So many people spend their entire lives this way. Knowing that they are living a lie and yet not being able to do anything about it.
What we do...A Poem by Erotic Goddess
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i am just a girl who
LOVES to WRITE
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Love Starts with a Smile,
Grows with a Kiss,
& Ends with a Tear.
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