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~~
her absence is a hum

beneath the streetlight.

it slips through my curtains -

silver,
never soft enough

to hush my thoughts.

give me a break.

...

her name is a wind,

caught behind my ribs,

blowing through

the rooms i built for her

but never locked.

...

every breath feels borrowed,

taken -

like she left it behind

by accident.

like her smile,

still living in the quiet

between my heartbeats.

...

the bed forgets

how to hold me right,

how to put me to sleep.

some nights,

loneliness is a second pillow.

other nights,

it’s her voice -

curled up

where my dreams should be.

but they aren’t.
thought there should be a second..

date wrote: 20/6/25
mysterie 12h
~~
talk to me.

stop staring from afar

i don't want stolen glances-

i want us.

i want your love.

i want your hand in mine.

...

i don't need to see you

across the room

laughing with another man

why couldn't it be me?

the girl you stare at

watch from afar-

making sure she's okay

quietly,

making sure she's not

seeing anyone else

you should talk to me

talk to me

instead of watching

instead of wondering

making sure

im not taken

im here

i just want

to be spoken to

by you.
date wrote: 20/6/25
mysterie 12h
~~
i don't miss her per se

not really-

not the way she stirred her coffee counter-clockwise

or how she spoke my name

ever so softly

like a secret

no one else could hold

...

i miss the feeling

of her-

that imagined life

woven in between shared glances

and almosts

the home i built

in her soft

gummy smile

before i saw the cracks

...

i miss what never even happened

the parallel version of us

the ones who stayed.

is that still missing her?

or just missing

being wanted

by someone

who never really could?

...

my ache has no address

no home

yet it answers

to her name

every time

like it's all i know

like she's all i know
hiraeth, a deep longing for something, especially ones home.

date wrote: 20/6/25
~~
the moon is a whisper

on my bedroom wall,

she's ten times louder in my head

...

her name is a tide

it pulls,

it tugs,

it etches itself

on the inside of my eyelids

...

every blink is a memory i didn't ask for

her laugh-

uninvited

but welcome

always

...

the bed is too big

for one body and this much longing

some nights

sleep forgets me

other nights

she replaces it
i hope she knows how much she makes me spiral, ive never wrote poetry. ever. this is new, because of her.

date wrote: 19/6/25
~~
we never speak

just glance

across italian class

across the corridor

across everything we don't say

...

she sits beside.. him

laughing loudly as he kisses her cheek

but her eyes flick

they always do

to me.

the girl sitting alone

head in a book

...

we trade seconds

like stolen notes

neither is brave enough

to unfold

to admit

and maybe in some other version of today

those glances would have been hands
fallen for a straight girl...again

date wrote: 19/6/25
he had this light in his eyes.
i never thought i would see “home” so vividly
until i looked into those eyes
those sweet brown eyes
filled with light.

i look into your eyes now
searching for the light he had
and i see nothing

i ask you thousands of questions
to understand you
like i understood him-
or so i thought i did-
but you say nothing

you make me smile
but not laugh like he did
volcanic eruptions of pure bliss
now valleys of yearning

i fear i’ve gone too far
and i can’t go back to him
what would he say anyways?
he still wouldn’t want me
though i was so sure he did

and you’re smiling at me
and you’re complimenting me
but i’m looking right past you
trying to see if i can see him
through the crowds and swarms of people

you look at me, and i smile back
but i’m staring into your deep brown eyes
searching for a light
that only he had
did i cross the line?
I am left yearning to drown,
When smothered in your love.
Breath, breath is optional,
I live off of your love.

Addiction, obsession, craving,
Need, you are need,
So I repeat the same words back to you,
Drown me.
The greatest lie you ever told to me
Was sealed with a kiss
That passion, desperation, clinging to mine 
You lied fiercely to me 
You pressed it to my lips as I believed it all
Lying to me repeatedly 
But my heart begged for more of your love 
Lie to me more, please
Because every time we do, I gain some hope
That this wasn't the last
That we had so much more in store for each other
We held on for so long
Both wanting to make this our permanent truth
Once again
I fell for the lie, the promise, that you will always
Come back to me
josef 7d
i dream of
running my hands through
his black curls
but his heart is obsidian
and i am an iron pickaxe
Ricardo Diaz Jun 9
She's flying away
For good this time
Fells like we only just met.

You make heaven seem so dull
With your beautiful laugh
and tumeric juice.

You were never mine to lose,
Yet I lost you nun the less.

Entangled forever,  
until the tides forget to pull us apart.  

You soundly touched my soul,
And left no finger prints

We said goodbye,  
I wished you well.  
You said  It's just words.  

I knew That was the last time  
I calmed your flames.  

My deep blue waters are void again.

I wait at the lobby of your old apartment.
Just to remember how it felt to drop you off.

Riding in the rain seems a lot less fun.
Walks in the park a lot less nice.
And songs in the dark a lot less paradise.

I love you gently,
The only way I was allowed to.

I really hope you don't read this poem.
So we can stay goodbye.

Knowing you,
you'll have another one of your
Gut feelings and just know I do.

You're actually gone aren't you?
A season in time
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