The Result of Giving Your Heart Away

I love a man who loves me too, but not enough to keep me.

Your eyes-

how they look straight into my heart.

My breath catches at the sight of you

and you fill my soul with the warmth of the dawning sun.

Your voice - the serenade of its tone

drowns the worries that try to snare me throughout the day 

and the very thought of you

rushes like a burst of wind within my soul.  

Oh, how I love you.

Yet here you are, 

you take it all away

and give it to someone else, yet I stay.

Giving faith and hope a chance that perhaps someday-

someway

it'll lead back into a time and place where

we'll find each other again.  

Traveling down the same road, 

our feet beating down the path 

with the sound of the dirt slipping underfoot

as we try and catch up.

But now it is broken, shattered, full of bereavement  

and regret...

My heart 

is not one that is subtle-

not a gentle breeze but a brewing storm. 

When I love, it is with all the intensity of that storm.  

When I dream-I do so with an unfathomable longing 

for something eternally intangible, yet something I can hold onto.

The thought of you envelops the entirety of my being 

leaving me gasping with an ache so deep 

one could never dive so far to reach its center.  

My God how I love you.

Yet here you are, 

you take it all away

and you give it to another, and yet I remain.

You insist that you love me, that i really matter.

The importance of our love is weathered,

dependent upon mood, insight, and whether or not we'll listen.

But we cannot listen to words unspoken

they're simply whispers in the mind

and mine is not strong enough to catch them,

I'm left feeling around in darkness, searching

though, I feel them in my gut, wrenching, aching, as

I have no other choice than to say goodbye.

Will you try to catch me as I try to run away?

Reviews

[Jonathan De Elvira]

*smiles* The last phrase kept me stuck for a while because how related it is with my situation. I don't know about you, but the promise of someone who wouldn't let me go was just a solid beautiful lies, because to me, every time something caught up and I'm badly hurt, that very same person will never be there for me, I ended up have to patch and calm myself all alone, anyway, this poem was great, I wonder why this masterpiece doesn't even have that much of reviews, shame on you readers...

[Jillian Alexis]

"You take it all away and give it to someone else, yet I stay." These words hit home, very poweful my friend! This masterpiece you have penned is a work of art, though sad and tragic as it may be. Thank you for sharing a piece of your heart for all to see. I'm certain that many can relate to these words, as can I. Well penned!

Jillian

[Muse]

I can almost feel your pain, my God:
leaving me gasping with an ache so deep
one could never dive so far to reach its center.
A very deep and emotional write......someone has inspired you because of a very deep hurt? I applaud you in both delivery and presentation. So many on here just type something up quick and here you go! I believe in the full package, poetry should be art for the eyes. Everything matters, pic, font, color, all of it!

A very talented writer you are! xo

[Your Perfect Disaster]

This is put together so fantastically.
So sad, so beautiful, so much emotion.
It almost made me wanna cry (from happiness? from sadness? from truth?)
You are very talented at what you do.....

[joshua deathdealer]

Nice piece. Sad but beautifully written. I also enjoyed the format..xx

[emmajoy]

Writing of the awfulness of loving someone who stands back or away, deceives or bemuses, is always painful to read; sometimes it's fact, sometimes fiction, but perhaps out of all emotions it's the one that brings out the most powerful thoughts on emptiness

[Chris]

The return view is a much stronger work... emotionally driven and more taut.

[Chris]

I messaged a review...

As a comment: you bring out some good questions needing answers from BOTH sides.

Chris