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Surely the saddest thing in the world must be
To see someone​ you once knew intimately
And they look straight​ through you with unknowing eyes
Which slowly dilate in surprise

Awkwardly you start to speak
And gaze upon that face, that cheek
That you once rained kisses upon
Now it's not yours, those days are gone

And you realise what once was " we "
Is now only " you " and​ " me "
Two people who are worlds apart
And once again you've broken my heart
I buy her cheap
can't buy expensive.

It's a gift she says
to give my spirit a lift
you buy low
it gets high on my love

don't ever think
price has a place in happiness
.

She wears the imitation
and the mirror explodes
into thousand stars
with the gift of joy
now not only hers
but inexplicably
spread all over me.
 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Born
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 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Born
Some  poems are not intended to heal old wounds
but to scorch them

for the pain is the only high we have left
that cares enough to hurt  us
He still loves you. Even when you broke his heart by rejecting him many times. I know you didn't expect him to fall this hard for you. I know you felt like you led him on simply because you were confused at a certain time; you felt comfortable that someone cares this much for you, you almost thought you liked him back. However, you realised you didn't feel the same way for reasons you know (or don't) but there's a gut feeling that tells you, you two are not meant to be. And so, with a heavy heart, you rejected him again and again. Softly at first, then harder next. Because he needs to know the truth: you're just not that compatible.

Then you meet someone else. You feel it, don't you? This time it's real. But he's still pining for you. I know you feel the guilt slowly suffocating you when you watch his crestfallen face when he catches you looking at your partner adoringly. I know you feel bad but he'll find someone else. You can't force yourself to like him back, no matter how sweet he is to you. It's a messy, confusing and painful experience but it's inevitable. You just need to give some space for both of you to untangle the knots. Give him time to heal. Eventually both of you will find your own happiness, and you know it isn't from each other. Someday the love he gave you will come back to him in waves and he'll be thankful you rejected him. But for now, it isn't anyone's fault.

-m.b
Unrequited love is a painful thing to go through, on both sides. It takes a lot of time and will to get through it, but you'll get by
 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Raph
A haiku
 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Raph
In a way you are,
This little far away star,
And I cant reach you
 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Malak S
As you read your favorite book
Your fingers caress the spine
Your eyes drift from page to page and
I wonder if you can tell how much the words admire your voice;
A symphony of wants and needs
My eyes never laid on something as
peaceful as the sight before me,
And my thoughts grip at the image hoping to embed it into the back of my mind
To cherish it
To play it back whenever the world seems harsh, rough
Can't seem to get over him.
 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Aleah
I want to tell you,
Everything,
But I'll never,
Get the chance,
Because,
When I see you,
(Almost never),
The words catch,
In my throat,
My hands,
Won't stop shaking,
And when I look at you,
Your eyes burn me,
Alive.
 Aug 2017 Shivam S
Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.
Just like the setting sun
It's just another one gone
Just one more out of the way
That's what some people say
Just another mother crying at the grave

The gossip said that he'd died
No-one cared and no-one cried
Would it have been any
Differently
If it had've been me ?

I never knew his his real name
Just another one in the game
Just a person that you meet
A face you nod at in the street
It could have easily been me

He was some poor mother's son
Now he's just another one gone
Another failure in their eyes
But no big surprise
Just another addict who has died

Just another deleted file
Another one in the pile
The reports​ still get wrote
The methadone still flows
Another homeless ****** is sleeping in his clothes

I don't know what to say
Got no answer​s anyway
All I know is that it's wrong
That I have to sing his song
And think of a person as ' just another one gone'
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