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Quanti amori perduti, quanti ritrovati

(Italiano)

** lasciato lungo il cammino
volti, mani, promesse,
che credevo parte eterna del mio viaggio.

Li ** persi nelle pieghe della paura,
nelle lacrime del non detto,
nelle attese che bruciavano il cuore.

Ma ogni amore perduto era una soglia,
una prova scolpita nel tempo,
per insegnarmi che il dolore non è fine,
ma passaggio.

E nel ritrovare me stesso
tra rovine e silenzi,
** visto che quegli amori
non erano svaniti,
ma trasformati.

Erano semi,
e la mia speranza l’acqua.

Ora fioriscono nel giardino del cuore
che ha imparato a distinguere
la paura dall’amore vero.

Perché l’Amore, quello vero, non si perde.
Si ritrova quando si è pronti
a guardarlo senza più fuggire.

— Masi Roberto © 2025


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How Many Loves Were Lost, How Many Were Found

(English)

Along the path I left behind
faces, hands, promises
I once believed eternal in my journey.

I lost them in the folds of fear,
in the tears of unspoken words,
in the waiting that scorched my heart.

But every love lost was a threshold,
a trial carved into time,
to teach me that pain is not an end,
but a passage.

And in finding myself again
through ruins and silence,
I saw that those loves
had not vanished,
but transformed.

They were seeds,
and my hope the water.

Now they bloom in the garden of the heart
that learned to tell apart
fear from true love.

Because Love — the true one — is never lost.
It is found again
when you are ready to face it
without running away.

— Masi Roberto © 2025
🇮🇹 Questa poesia fa parte della mia raccolta bilingue già pubblicata su Amazon.
🇬🇧 This poem is part of my bilingual collection already published on Amazon.
Ric 5d
She could've stayed, and I would've loved her for a lifetime.

She could've let herself be loved, and I would've shown her what that means.

She could've let herself wake beside me on Sundays, and I would've kept making her pancakes.

She could've let herself believe she was enough, and I would've reminded her, every day, that she was.

She could've let herself be my Jessica Rabbit, and I would've made her laugh like Roger every day.

She could’ve let herself slow dance with me in the bedroom, and I would’ve held her through every quiet night.

She could've stayed, and I would’ve kept planning picnic dates.

She could've stayed, and I would've written her poems until my hands gave out.

She could've stayed, and I would've loved her, even when she couldn't love herself.

She could've stayed, and I would've made every birthday feel like magic.

She could've stayed, but she didn't. Now all my "would've's are just echoes in the hallway she left me in


She could've stayed....
She could've stayed, and I would’ve loved her until my heart gave out. Until my lungs stopped breathing. Until my brain stopped thinking.
Every sadness brings me back to you.
When tears fall,
your memory falls with them,
and I am heartbroken
all over again.
Ric Sep 29
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.
Ric Sep 29
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.
Ric Sep 29
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..
girlinflames Sep 29
Today is a portal day—
a day to close cycles,
to remember,
to say enough.

And who messages me?
You.
Like confirmation
from the universe.

I saw the photos online—
you with her,
traveling,
smiling.

But always behind sunglasses,
so no one notices
how bored you are.

My sister says
she’s just a filler,
a stand-in.
There’s no glow in your eyes.

All that’s left
is to laugh at the scene,
because deep down,
it feels almost comical.

So I wish you happiness—
though my heart is stormy,
angry, torn.

If I wish you harm,
I create bad karma.
So—
many felicities.
Hex Sep 3
I knew you’d never cross my way,
yet hope deceived my heart each day.
My heart holds only your memories true,
my eyes just illusions, still painted of you,
a ghost of love that chose to stay.
girlinflames Sep 19
A date?
I don’t know.

Your love—
is it fake?
Maybe.

Why did you take my number?
Just to know.

And now,
what will this be?
Perhaps a story
already fading into smoke.

Let’s pretend
we never did a thing.
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