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Maryann I Mar 5
She has lived, she has wandered,
loved and lost, dreamed and fallen.
She is not untouched by time,
nor unshaken by the past.
But if she stands beside you now,
if she looks at you with eyes that see
not just who you are,
but who you are becoming,
what else matters?

She is not perfect—
neither are you.
Together, you may stumble,
may fumble through the dark,
may misunderstand and misstep.
But if she makes you laugh,
if she stirs your thoughts,
if she is unafraid to be real,
to be flawed, to be human—
hold onto her.

She may not think of you
every moment of the day,
but she will give you the one thing
that costs her most to lose—
her heart.
So handle it gently.
Don’t try to change her,
don’t measure her love against expectation,
don’t ask for more than she can give.

Instead—
smile when she brings you joy,
tell her when she makes you ache,
and when she is gone,
miss her.
ibraheem Feb 24
I was never yours. You were never mine.  
We never held each other. You know me not.  
I acknowledge you whole, yet I know fractions of your entirety.  

I want to hold you close.  
I want your perfections against my skin, printing on me.  
Even better yet, I want your imperfections on me.  
Stain me with what you call imperfections,  
colour me black with them.  

Tear me apart—with effort.  
Make me yours, for life.  

Let me carry your imperfections,  
of which they hold no weight.  
Let me carry the weight of your perfections.  

Let me pave the road of us.  
Maybe your print will be missing from the first miles of it,  
but your print is everlasting on me.  
And on the road—who can carry the burden of us together?  

A road fractured the instant we met.  
Parallel worlds.  
I fall into a world where vividness falls short of the eye,  
another where light meets colour,  
and my eyes meet you.  

I was never yours—  
or so you say.
I watch the world, their perfect show,  
Faces painted, confidence aglow.  
But beneath the surface, they're just like me,  
Insecure, afraid, lost at sea.  

Yet somehow, the world lets them belong,  
Embraces their flaws, sings their song.  
But what of me, who sees the truth,  
Who knows

I'm imperfect, broken,
Not fit to love, or to be loved.  
While they speak in circles, fill the air,  
I sit in silence, too much to bear.  

I choose the quiet, the lonely path,  
Avoid the noise, escape the noise.  
Days pass by in a fading light,  
I long for the end, the final night.  

I spend my days in a desperate plea,  
To end it all, to set me free.  
For in that end, I’ll find my way,  
Where meaning dawns as night turns day.  

For what is life to one like me,  
A shadow of what should be?  
An imperfect human, lost and bent,  
Finds meaning only when it's spent.
I don't know I just started to write this when I was feeling down and depressed
Lillian Feb 3
Her heart is clean
It's white
Like rabbit
It's clear
From bad habits
She is the Lily
Of this filthy Valley.

If her heart
Dared to get a bit
Of filth anyway
She would be shammed
She might as well wither away
The world is no place
For a perfect white lily
Why should we judge
All humans are silly
Even the purest girl out there
Can make mistakes.
Purity culture is unfair to women. It throws us into a perfect picture and a set of social expectations making girls around the world feel unworthy of love.
Twain
Rose
LOOK "RIGHT"

FLOWER
Said
not

My disgust and horror

the
Greatest Rose
doesn't
ACTUALLY HAPPEN SOMETIMES
makes more sense on paper-
each line represents a different piece of paper
Immortality Jan 12
To be a star,
you must burn.

To be a flower,
you must blossom.

To be art,
you must be created.

To be music,
you must be played.

To be a river,
you must flow.

But to be a lover,
you may not be loved.
I think love should never be conditional...

I’m not perfect, and maybe I’m the most complicated and imperfect girl.
Anddd... a lot of people dislike me and give sarcastic comment for that, buttttt.... my parents and siblings love me unconditionally <3...I thank God every day for it.
It's not about quantity of people, but quality of love, for me..... hehehe..... :)

Remember,
You are never alone; there’s always someone with you.
Maybe it’s just you who are too focused on what's in front of you and haven’t noticed the one standing beside you.
Ember Dec 2024
freckle-speckle face,
marks like delicate lightning
on stomach and thighs,
soft form like Aphrodite.

broad, sturdy bones
wrapped in imperfection.
with flaws like gems,
you shine the brightest.
Gerry Sykes Dec 2024
An oyster’s grit accumulating
new layers of aragonite
and calcite, contributing, plating
the growing bright translucent white
and crystalizing hard, pellucid
wan pearl – that forms within the mucid
molluscan slimy dank inside –
a creamy gem is calcified.

Diaphanous and lustrous jewel
or septic and necrotic stone
that’s like a canker which has grown
into an opulent fat spherule?
A pearl forms round a piece of grit,
my childhood at the heart of it.
An attempt at a Pushkin's Stanza. I think this is the hardest form I've tried so far: it was quite a challenge to get the female/male rhymes in (more or less) iambic tetrameter (obviously an extra syllable  for female rhymes). Never thought I would use "aragonite" in a poem.
D Vanlandingham Dec 2024

This...  or that..
the pull of this world
and its long supply
of disappointment,  is strong

I shall Reframe my Journey
almost continually

There is a swirl..  a rising
line, taut..

before limply settling
back down onto the water

There are moments  in time
that live forever

There is a time within
those moments;
I never truly had
the chance  to live


There is a Journey to reframe


I will find my life again,  
   somewhere

Buried deep
within that framework


Aw ****... Monsters.
    including me
https://youtu.be/fe4EK4HSPkI?si=HaVtDm-Y1BTikD3F

I love you
Our crude imperfections they serve to remind
     Of the ****** limits by which we’re defined
               And so I surmise
               That you need not despise
     The ephemeral flaws of a natural kind
Based on the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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