Ric: Poems

1d · 467

Ric 1d

April 23, 2024
I sit in the dark with her breath warm on my lap
Watching the way sleep softens her face
I have never seen beauty like this
I have fallen for her so hard
Words scatter in my mouth
She is breathtaking
I write letters in the hush
Pages for her to find when she wakes
My thoughts curling around her like a blanket
I wonder to myself; “How did I finally find my forever?”
Just after midnight she wakes and texts me
“Babe, you moved me to tears, your letter. I felt you in every word. I haven’t been this happy in forever.”

July 12, 2025
How did we become strangers?
Inside the story we wrote together
Why weren’t my words, my hands, my hope Enough to keep her close?
I love her so deeply, she will never know
She’s gone now, moved on from us
But I am still here
Lying awake revisiting April nights
When she was the answhere to every silent question I ever asked the dark

The night i wrote a letter in the dark for her to wake to was the night I fallen completely in love with her. I am so thankful for the opportunity to love like this.

#poetry #love #truelove #breakup #breakuppoetry #lettinggo #movingon #istillloveher #sheseverything #lostlove

2d · 340

And now..

Ric 2d

And now..

And now I have to remember you
Longer than I knew you.

The problem with loving so deeply is that you may never love that deep again.

#poetry #deepcut #loveandlost #lostlove #imissyou #iloveyou #trueunconditionallove #loveandmemories #memories #ghostsfromthepast

2d · 548

She sat there believing this was a calamity..

Ric 2d

She sat there believing this was a calamity..

I didn’t want it to end
I panicked, and I broke the best thing I had.
You didn’t drag me down , I did.
If I’d known I’d get worse,
I’d have never let you that close.

I’m sorry I made you feel unwanted
when you were all I wanted.
I loved you , but my mind stayed sick,
my fear louder than your arms.

You trusted pinky promises
I never should’ve made.
If you ever wonder
I did love you.
And I hate that I proved I could break you.

As I lay there with my head in her lap, I imagine these are the thoughts she had. I laid there believing I found my forever. She sat there believing this was a calamity. She did the only thing she knew how to do. Self-sabotage and run away..

#heartbreak #regret #lostlove #confession #healing #lettinggo #apology #poetsofhellopoetry #brokenpromises #mentalhealth

2d · 225

18DEC2024

Ric 2d

18DEC2024

"Words cannot express how much today meant to me.

I can tell just how much effort you’ve put into these special days to really make me happy and feel loved, and I do.

I feel so loved I guess that’s part of why I got so emotional because I have so much more to lose now and that’s scary.

I love you so very much.
You are my man.
My everything
and I adore you."

Her words: proof that I mattered. At least on that December night.

Her words as a mirror reminding me that I meant something, at least that December night

#iadoreyou #iloveyou #love #adoreyou #backtodecember #breakuppoetry #breakup #movingon #healing #healingpoetry

2d · 526

The way I loved Her

Ric 2d

The way I loved Her

I didn’t just love her
I chose her
In the quiet
In moments
no one else saw

I gave her steady hands
and a heart that never flinched
I loved her when it was easy
I loved her more when it wasn’t

I memorised her fears
softened my voice to hold them
I learned her silence
waited in the dark
without needing light

My love didn’t ask to be returned
It asked to be real
So I gave it
even when I was tired
even when it cracked me open

#love #heartbreak #breakuppoetry #breakup #truelove #devoted #poetry

3d · 3.7k

In another universe, they still dance

Ric 3d

In another universe, they still dance

In another universe,
they sway hand in hand.
Dancing on moon dust,
In a silver dreamland.
Stars hum their blessing,
the Earth fades from view,
two souls in forever,
where love feels brand new.
No gravity binds them, no ending, no soon just endless soft laughter, dancing on the moon.

In another universe, I'm still hers and she's still mine. Hand in hand, smiling ear to ear, dancing the night away.

#universe #slowdance #anotherlife #iloveher #idchosehereagain #love #breakup #heartbreak #poetry

3d · 258

What remains

Ric 3d

What remains

Four months have come and gone
The axis of the earth has shifted twice since you left
Autumn ended
Winter dragged its bones across my door
And now, today, it is the first day of spring
It is 21 September 2025

I thought I would be healed by now
But I am still speaking your name in silence
The tears come and go
And my love remains

I miss you so
And you will never know
In the dead of night I scream your name
I am the only one of us still carrying this pain

Every day
I fight the urge to call you
To text you
To tell you that I still care
To tell you that I love you

She left 27 May 2025. Three seasons. Four months. Thousands of tears.

#iloveyou #imissyou #seasons #breakup #breakuppoetry #nocontact

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