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Aa Harvey Apr 2018
Counting candles


It’s a gloomy Tuesday as the rain falls all around.
The sound of church bells sums up the irony of this day; so down.
Another void future, a distant horizon pulls away from me.
Frozen in place; my heart is empty.


In this fragile state of mind,
I just don’t have the strength to self-hate.
I love to loathe, but what is the point?
People walk on by as I stare at my feet; I am without a choice.
Love life’s hand-break is keeping me in this state.
A heart divided; I cannot give this love away.


Romance is a stranger to my life.
Everybody is in love, it seems, to the one who cannot even try.
Last chance I took turned into a joke.
I laughed at my luck for I am a fool without hope.
I trust in the failure when I fail to trust.
I love my misery; it does not ask me for love.


I’m counting candles in a church;
So many old flames have gone out.
One day I will give up searching for love
And leave you all to be happy without me…
But that time is not yet now.


(C)2017 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
JaQuise Caldwell Nov 2015
Why did I let you back in?
... to catapult your meek fictitious "feelings" of unrequited
love
towards the face still stained with pain,
clocked in disappointment and concealed with denial?
Deny the truth.
Accept the moment.
Let pass, through the gate of your once shielded heart,
the feeling of feelings I felt for your foolish, fickle, ***?
... to feel love
be
ripped
away...
again?
Have it tossed over my emotion's edge
lost
and only to be found in the emptiness....
the numbness
of the eternal recurrence.
You will always come back to me.
And even though I said that last time was
the last time that
I'd have to taint last time's  name but,
here...
we...
are.
Same space, different times, same motives.
And yet... I fall for you
again.

— The End —