#separation poems on Hello Poetry

Sydney Poynter Jul 2018

I wish I could sleep peacefully like a housecat,
snuggled into a reclining chair,
without a care in the world.
But instead
I toss and turn with the thought
that I’m not sure where I’ll be resting my body to sleep
6 months
or a year from now.
I lie awake with the worries
of missing home and feeling guilty
for leaving my needy parents behind.
The thought of distance separating you and I,
causing us to not be together
keeps my eyes open,
so that I cannot close my eyes to sleep -
not even a wink.

#college #distance #fear #separation #love #guilty #sad #anxious #poem #poetry

Alice Lovey Jul 2018

I wish someone could tell me what "love" is.

Or do I already know?
I naively nourish these fervid feelings I hold.
Moving slowly, in rhythm, matching your sway,
Questionless is my admiration in every way.
Ardently I coast on the energy waves
Of your passions
And dispassionate despondency.
Waste the day together watching good TV;
It's not wasted if it's with you.
The never-ending riddle of learning how to love,
And learning how to love the one you love,
The one you think most of.
The unfaltering encouragement of success,
Filling in the blanks so the other won't stress.
I'll sweep the floors when you can't anymore,
Get us through the boring chores
Of every day life.
Those mundane motions for the future--
So much more to look forward to
With the addition of you.
Voices soften with the intimacy of quieter talk...
And the sensuality of our skin.
The carelessness and the giving in.
The tears shed, yours and mine,
Shared as "tiny dots on an endless timeline."
The subtleties of selflessness,
The subtleties of trying to change.
The obsession over mistakes,
Anxiety that keeps me awake.
Heated fights and
The addictive rush when we make up.
The selfishness, greed and possessiveness build up.
I am broken,
Or I act as if I am so.
I am broken, but there are sunflowers I wish to grow
In the broken *** within you
So that you may feel a little less broken too.
If this is love, I wish someone could tell me.
If this is love, why must it be so delicate,
Yet so assiduously enduring?
Continuous forgiveness
And the things we let each other get away with;
The "knowing better"s.
All those firsts, all those places that were meant to be with you.
Everything I would do
To make you smile.
How naturally I could laugh and feel at ease,
How naturally you brightened a smile on me.
How naturally, despite, we could become so miserable.
How naturally, despite, I could love so unconditional.
The wanting to just feel you there
Till we were unaware of our despair.
The frankness and the fall of our walls.

The letting go.
The folding up my heart and putting it away
When I can accept
It's not yet
To be worn by you.

"Shared dots on an endless timeline" borrowed from a song by La Dispute, called "Woman (in mirror)"

“White”

Letting myself feel, at least for today.

#unconditional #love #relationship #separation #him

Irlomak Jul 2018

Never-ending Moments with You.

I used to be so excited for sleep
to get on the bed
and slip myself inside the warmth of my blankets
but as unbelievable as it is, it changed.

For this time,
going to sleep means I have to part ways with you
but you know how everything has a positive side?

Let me tell you, for all the years I have lived
never in my life have I ever been so excited to wake up every morning knowing that I'd be spending a new day with you.

#sleep #thoughts #feelings #separation #anxiety

sunprincess Jul 2018

Keep Your Hands OFF the Hostess Cakes!

You will see what I mean, log onto any internet site
Pick up your remote and turn on any station
Read your local paper, chat with all your neighbors
This is one more unbelievable investigation

Impossible! He's lying, she's lying, they're all lying
Things like this just don't happen in our nation
In this great land, people are down right respectable
Believe this everyone receives a proper education

See families with children are always kept together
Small children being raised by parents impeccable
Government entities aren't transplanting flowers
Check this, in this great land of morales acceptable

Would you believe one has their own perspective?
Half of what I said just may be true for all of you
On the other hand everything I said may be false
So if you choose, you can say the sky is baby Blue

Only some of us know the Truth!

#illiteracy #no #child #left #behind #metoo #parent #separation #truth #lies

Frank Discussion Jul 2018

A Chocolate Divorce

I gave you a chocolate bar last night.
As if that could soften the blow of divorce.

A divorce that hits,
With all of the force
Of things that came before
the last few scenes
Of this remorseful divorce.

I invited you to breakfast.
As if eating cancer inducing bacon with our children,
Will close this void.

A void that has grown,
As you try to avoid
Eye contact with the man who annoyed,
But was gravely ill
And took no joy
As his marriage became
This hideous void.

I love the smell of freshly signed divorce papers in the morning (sic).

#divorce #marriage #separation #wife #love #life #loss #breakfast #mental #health

Phasma de Oceanus Jul 2018

The Memory

Dissociation;

   I gave myself to you
   And you
   Gave yourself to another.

Fanaticism;

   You, the zealot that just
   Could not
   Remain satisfied with just me.

Alienation;

   I became a foreigner in my body
  All while
  You were on an expedition with hers.

Adoration;

  The slap in the face of
   Loving you
   Leaves me a bleeding heart.

Separation;

   Sever the memory of you and I
   For a
   Sweet relief to this unending pain.

This piece is based off of the artwork "The Memory" by Frida Kahlo

#artinspired #sad #separation #inspiration #feedback

Isla Jul 2018

strangers pt 2

His eyes shown with a thousand words he could never say
As he turned his back
Each step
Another reason why he wished to stay

#leaving #walking #away #separation #tears #goodbye #breakup #him #her

Fahad shah Jul 2018

O God!

O God !! I can't convince and
they can't feel......
Change their hearts if
You won't change my tongue

#pray #hope #trust #love #devastated #left #convince #separation

Fahad shah Jun 2018

She's a poem

A blink of words
That can't be said
Or even be written
She is poem of thousand words

She is fierce and gentle
All at once
She's a song
An unending song

She is a sparkle
She is a shine
She is the only thing
That i want to call mine

She is my everyday
And an everynight
She is every morning
And an every twilight

She is all i know
She is all i see
She is a sweet melody
She is an unmatching rhythm

#poem #compliment #thankful #love #hurt #devastated #break #separation #miss #left

anthony Brady Jun 2018

ATTRITION

I lived,
to write
my story of
survival for people
who are suffering victims.

"I am content to follow to its source
Every event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest."

A Dialogue of Self And Soul - W B Yeats

SCENES FROM AN EXAMINED LIFE - author Anthony J M Brady Available from tradition.de

#absence #separation #loss #acceptance #reconciliation