#abandonment poems on Hello Poetry

N Mar 2020

You who left me,
a child without a home

You who neglected me,
I carry your last name
like a curse

You who forgotten me,
I look in the mirror and see
your eyes staring back at me

I hate that I have his eyes.

#absent #abandonment #divorce #father #cruel #unloved #hurt #disgrace #personal #bpd

N Mar 2020

Longing

I endured your absence
when my heart longed
for your healing presence

#abandonment #absence #distant #love #longing #healing #broken #sadness

N Mar 2020

Heartless

Love is but a terrible pain
that leaves one’s heart in vain

I wrote this line in class and my doctor came to me and asked “What are you writing that could possibly be more important than Peter’s study?”

#love #heartless #heartbroken #pain #vain #abandonment

N Mar 2020

The Final Act Of Love

1.
The seasons changed,
but he kept wearing a sweater
during the steamiest weather

He spoke in three languages,
but has only felt the word:
Melancholy,
and the joyous absence of it

He wondered who he would
be without his sweater,
and the word Melancholy

2.
He never uttered the word father
for it was heavy on his tongue
like heavy rain on a bleak midnight

His mother loved him dearly,
or ruined him and called it love

A man has fallen in love with him,
and he felt for the first time; the
warmth of equally returned love

His lover tore apart his heart, and
told him it was the final act of love

3.
After eleven years of insomnia,
he stopped measuring happiness
based on how many nights he slept
A funeral rose in his heart as he wept

He muttered the word:
Suffering
as if it were
a prayer
or a lullaby

4.
Drawing road maps on his skin
was his only consolation,
he chose the color red
to find his missing path

Scars between his thighs
like hidden treasures—
Centuries deep
away from people’s sight

5.
His new beloved was in
the shape of a knife,
they embraced and
the gushing blood
was his final act of love

This is simply me in a poem. Mercury is in retrograde am I right?

#love #death #suicide #cutting #gay #raw #abandonment #scars #lost #melancholy

N Mar 2020

Fallen Wish

An eyelash stuck on her left cheek,
she places it on the tip of her finger
makes a wish,
and gently blows it away
hoping it’d come true

Hold me like
a wish in your heart

Leave me like
you’re blowing
away an eyelash
to make another wish

Do it gently
and I promise,
I’ll come true

#abandonment #wish #heartbreak #ex #old #love

N Feb 2020

Loveless

She was named after love,
and letters were exchanged
between lovers in her name

Poets found their muse
when she visited their hearts
and I was one of them

But my love never
reached her heart
like hers did mine

And so she left,
when my stubborn heart was
aching to be laced with hers

She left,
and my eyes were searching,
yearning for her

Dear Heyam,
I swear on love letters
and you
For it is the last poem
I write about you

The name Heyam -هيام- means ardent love in Arabic, that was my lover’s name. She’s the ex I’m always writing about, and I pray to Aphrodite that this is the last poem I write for her.

#love #heartbreak #ex #loveless #ode #personal #heartache #abandonment

Thomas W Case Feb 2020

Well Versed in Delerium

She left me like
Brutus left Caesar
like a shark attack.
My back was bent and
bleeding, and I was well
versed in delirium.

She had the electricity
shut off the day after
she abandoned me, and I drank
myself into a new oblivion.
There were kittens in
the wall--shadows tall and hot,
and I was well versed
in delirium.

I stole Four Locos' from
the convenience store, but
not enough to keep
the goblins at bay.
They chased me through
my nightmare--molested
me at dawn.
The elixir exorcised the monsters.
But I often misplaced it,
in the dryer or fireplace.
Meat began to rot in
the freezer, and I was
well versed in delirium.

My moon flowered brain thought
the cat tree was
a person.
I paced the floor and
talked to it; asked questions,
sought solace.
Degradation of the
mind reached critical mass.
And I landed in the
psych ward again.
The bats brought seizures,
and cheesecake, and yogurt
berry parfaits that were
to die for.
I was well versed in
delirium

Another day in paradise

#dts #abandonment #insanity #break #ups #alcoholism #pain

Nina Feb 2020

2 years ago

2 years ago,
I found out i was pregnant
Carrying a child whose father i don't even know
A man who ***** me in my sleep
And left me with nothing but pain

Despite so,
I wanted to keep my child
I wanted to take care of him
But life doesn't always goes as planned

It wasn't my decision to keep him
But during the time i had him,
I was the happiest
Because i had fallen in love
With a baby i have not met
A child i swore to take care
A child that made me love myself
In order to love him

Losing him
Was heartbreaking

If i could turn back time
I wouldve taken good care of myself
So i can have you in my life right now
But at the same time
I would've wished i never met the man
Who left you and me

2years ago today
I made a foolish mistake
But i never once regretted having you in my life

I love you still
I will love you always

#love #abortion #rejection #abandonment #**** #mistake #foolish #pain #heartbreak

Carlo C Gomez Feb 2020

Abandoned Shopping Mall

Entombed on the outskirts
of hero township
sits a once Arcadian jewel
turned relic

its vast wings spread
as an eagle
but the days of flight
long exhausted

sullen close-down signs and banners
hang minatory from
a fractured glass ceiling
-- a terminal remainder

spots of rain fall thru strewn wreckage
along the counters of a fossilized department store

inchworms journey down
the massive teeth of a frozen
escalator descended from
the empty heavens

creepy crawlers move about
remnants of a food court
in search of morsels

like the droves of
holiday shoppers
that once haunted this place

before betraying it
for the shiny new toy
across the highway

#shopping #malls #abandonment #friendship #aging #nostalgia #childhood #memories

Willow Branche Jan 2020

Never, Ever, Let Me Go (Song) (2019)

Slip right through my fingers
Breathe her in
She is the beautiful
Embodiment of sin
Flesh meets flesh
I’ll hold her forever
Here in this haven
We’ve created together
Hover softly, gently now
Break the silence
Never the vow

Need like oxygen
Hold me close
Never, ever, let me go
Don’t leave me here
I’m just a ghost
Never, ever, let me go.

Eyes of maple
Lips like wine
Her gaze, her grace
I’ll make them mine
She sees my pain
Looks past the smile
Let’s stay here
just a little while
There’s a fire inside me
I can’t seem to put out
So i let her engulf me
Burn through the doubt
I get lost in her soul
Tangled up in her hair
Suddenly the world
Runs out of air

Need like oxygen
Hold me close
Never, ever, let me go
Don’t leave me here
I’m just a ghost
Never, ever, let me go.

She’s everything you’ve ever wanted
(Please don’t let me go)
She’s everything you’ve ever needed
(You’ll leave me feeling low)
She’s all you’ve ever dreamt of
(We can take it nice and slow)
But god told me once before
You reap just what you sow.

Need like oxygen
Hold me close
Never, ever, let me go
Don’t leave me here
I’m just a ghost
Never, ever, let me go.
Need like oxygen
Hold me close
Never, ever, let me go
Don’t leave me here
I’m just a ghost
Never, ever, let me go.

I beg of you, if you ever go
Please my dear, don’t let me know.

#love #romance #doubt #fear #relationships #lesbian #song #abandonment