Hello PoetryVoting

Vote

Voting-Boards

Home

HomeFollowingInboxNotifications

Read

ReadLiftedFeedsHeartedHistoryMy poemsNew poem

Explore

ExploreOrbitsWordsTagsClassics
Log in
0
Stars
0
Embers
0
Alerts
0
Inbox

Vote

Voting-Boards

Home

HomeFollowingInboxNotifications

Read

ReadLiftedFeedsHeartedHistoryMy poemsNew poem

Explore

ExploreOrbitsWordsTagsClassics
Log in
0
Stars
0
Embers
0
Alerts
0
Inbox

Look Away

I looked for you for years,

Before I realised I’d already found you,

The traveller,

Who travelled away from home,

And wondered why it was nowhere to be found.

 

I can’t seem to make you understand,

You won’t see what I see,

You can’t see what I see,

If you did you’d never look away,

Much as I can’t,

For what light, or sight or scene is your better?

Tell me,

How can I see where I’m going,

If I can’t look away?

 

I no longer know if you’re an enemy to be overcome,

Or a partner to overcome this with,

You, who are mine at last,

Chasing, chasing, running for you,

Taking blow after blow,

And ridicule,

Finally I have done enough,

And I’ve made you smile.

 

And no one will ever try harder than me.

 

You will never be seen as I see you,

And that is why I can’t look away,

When I stop looking it’s gone,

I will be the only one ever to see it,

And I refuse to make you less than you are,

By robbing you of the adoration,

Of a stupid boy,

Who gave you his t-shirt.

 

Why then do you refuse to return my gaze?

As if I would leave you naked for the world to see,

As if I would let anything hurt you,

I would throw myself on my sword,

Before hurting you

 

You who will leave me in agony,

Made everything as hard as it could possibly be,

And the better it gets the harder the struggle to keep it,

You would give me the hardest possible task,

For a man with my affliction,

I must let you go,

Before you’ll stay with me.

 

I must look away.

 

And so the world would take you from me,

And ill be ****** if I’m going to let it.

Who am I to call someone like you, mine?

Maybe I am not now,

But I will be good enough,

Remember always that,

“She’ll love me,

If I get to the top.”

 

I have never wanted anything more in my life,

No, sight, no sound, no possession,

No one,

Has ever stole my gaze,

The way you did.

 

I won’t let that be taken from me.

 

I will fight,

I will struggle and I will fight,

Against myself,

Ill fight the pain and the memories,

I will fight the world that would take you from me,

So that you can leave,

If that’s what you need,

I will fight and I will win,

Gods and kings have waged war,

For half of this,

And so I go to war,

Over the chance,

However small,

That again I will see,

The girl that stole my gaze,

That as I came back to you all those times,

That this once,

You will come back to me.

Request permission to use this poem
Written by
richard-wood-1
Published
May 25, 2013
Lines·Words
76·473
Notes

For my ginger

Permission

Request to use this poem

Tell richard-wood-1 how you would like to use it. We review requests before forwarding them.

AboutBlogFAQPrivacyTermsContact
© 2009-2026 Hello Poetry/v27.0 by @eliotyork
Explore
Hello PoetryVoting
Write