I could love you if you let me
but you keep me outside your heart
my fingertips stroke at the pulse of your vulnerability
No, I guess you’re keeping your heart safe for someone else
My thoughts race for hours stirring up all the ways I don’t measure up
I’d drown in self doubt if Sleep didn’t take mercy on me.
Your heart beats for her but will it bleed?
No flower petal or wishing star is willing to take that bet with me.
See loving you would be bad for my health
My heart would sacrifice me in order to make room for you
And without a home in yours, I grow weak and insecure
Starving for your love would be the death of me.
So this is self preservation baby
I’ve bled too much for you
It’s my life or yours,
and I choose Mine.
-June 2017
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Lovely I love the poem
Thank you so much for commenting and sharing it on your page! I’m glad you love it as much as I do!
Beautiful written poem ❤
Thank you so much!!
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Ok so this is NOT directed towards anyone…just beautiful words I wanted to share ☺️💪🏽
Thanks so much for reblogging my poem! That’s so cool and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Hey, I’ve nominated you for the Mystery Blogger Award, it goes up today, you should be tagged in it, but just in case 🙂
Thank you so much! I look forward to working on it!
Love this. Wish I had written it
Oh man thats such an awesome compliment! haha I think that a lot when I read something I really like, so thank you so much!
Incredible! You have a natural gift! The part where you wrote ”starving for your love would be the death of me” left me with goosebumps! Wow.
Thank you so much for the compliments! I love hearing how certain lines touched readers!
I get a subtle hint that this poem isn’t entirely fictional. That it might well be aimed at somebody. I hope not. It wouldn’t please me to know that you genuinely feel this way.
The best jokes and poems have a bit of truth in them right? How could I expect my readers to feel the poem if I haven’t felt it myself? And hopefully someone will take strength from my struggles and choose to love themselves like I did.
I suppose they do. Perhaps a pretty stupid comment for me to make in retrospect. I’m glad you learned lessons from the experience and I’m sure a poem like this will inspire others to do the same.
Definitely not a stupid comment, perhaps I’m the stupid one for not putting more fiction into my content. But yes I hope my lessons teach others too.
I view poetry as fictional because that’s how I write it (take my recent poem about suicide, for example). That doesn’t mean everyone writes poetry the same way. Definitely keep writing from the heart. Also bear in mind that I’m somewhat full of cider at present so that might well have clouded my judgement 😂
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Wonderfully written!