#unrequittedlove
Hush and be still where you lie, fretful thing,
In your bed at the base of the sea.
Too costly our fight was, too fatal the sting
When you worshipped what could never be.
I sealed you away in a cave –
Banished from daylight, consigned to the grave –
Hoping that soon you’d be crushed by the deep,
But still you won’t die – you are merely asleep!
Steady though dim, you burn,
Your embers not flickering once as you turn
And toss through the night in your fragile rest,
Still winking your rose-diamond light in my chest.
Please, oh Love, do not be aroused
Or by some new dangerous hope set free!
Forget not why you’re in prison housed,
Lest you be the end of me!
Feb 17
Feb 17, 2026 at 1:40 AM UTC
Your eyes are as deep as an ocean
Pulling me in and leaving me drowning in your gaze
Your smile makes my cold, dead heart beat
Bringing back color to my sallow cheeks
A nervous laugh making me feel a thing I haven't felt in ages
A god in disguise, giving life to things that were once dead
Or maybe a necromancer
Because with every breath I take, you leave me in constant pain
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021 at 12:42 AM UTC
The sun beats down
with burning rays
atop a desert sand.
Nothing moves,
there is no sound,
among the Earth's dryland.
The hard ground cracks
a little more
as the days get hotter.
Only a snake
sits by a pool
of freshly cold spring water.
The water provides the snake with life
without it,
he would die.
But the snake
sees something else:
a pool he can't deny.
For it had trees
that shaded him,
more comfortable a space.
But this pool
was not as pure
no not as much in grace.
Either way,
the snake moved on
across that pool of shade,
giving in
to all temptations
that the water made.
He was never unhappy
and stayed
for quite a while.
For the pool
was something new
whose looks would all beguile.
Until one day,
the snake woke up
and found the water gone.
For all that was left-
a pile of dirt,
and nothing to count on.
And so he went
back to the place
for which he had vacated.
Alas he found,
it too was ground.
The pool evaporated.
The snake grew frantic.
Filled with panic,
his life had reached it's deadline.
The warmth was gone.
He'd never see dawn.
So long, the Desert Sunshine.
Dec 10, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 at 1:24 PM UTC
You're the calm to my storm I've embraced,
I'm the void you're lost in.
Nov 22, 2019
Nov 22, 2019 at 9:02 PM UTC
It's been a while since we last spoke,
3 years to be precise, but who's counting anyway, not me.
Definitely not me.
By the way I unfriended you on facebook,
I figured it's about time, I mean after 3 years of radio silence,
a long term girlfriend for you,
and a series of unsuccessful hookups for me,
I figured it's about time I gave up the illusion of being friends with you.
Every now and then I look you up,
and thanks to your disregard for security and privacy settings,
I stalk you, and her.
She seems nice, positive, bubbly,
committed to all the right causes,
I cannot really find any reason to dislike her. Shame.
Perhaps if I said yes the second time round, or the third,
perhaps if we hadn't been so young and had another go,
perhaps if you said yes, when I eventually felt so,
we'll never know.
Jan 15, 2017
Jan 15, 2017 at 5:00 PM UTC
You think you slick
It scares me that you know exactly what to say
When I'm broken and losing feelings
You know how to make me stay
You give me that temporary healing
You think you slick
Because you no longer hear my cry
you think that **** is cool
But I know you and every time you lie
I ain't always going to play your fool
You think you slick
You only want me when I don't want you
when somebody else got my eye
You feel the need to slide on through
I don't even know why I try
You think you slick
Because we just on the DL
So why should anybody know
Loving you just seems to be hell
Maybe it's best that I just go
Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 11:33 AM UTC
*
I can't escape you,
for your name is carved into my bones
and your smile is sewn into my memories.
I can't escape you.
there are scars on my skin where your hands
have been.
there are blisters on my lips where you have
kissed.
I can't escape you.
I saw you in the school corridor today,
and I felt myself gravitate toward you.
I wanted to feel your hair between my
fingers;
I wanted to feel your lips against mine.
being safe in your arms is the closest to
home I've ever been.
I could feel my muscles ache to reach for
you.
I was close enough that the smell of your cologne hit me hard.
your arm brushed mine,
and I tried to play it cool.
but all I want is you.
May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 6:35 PM UTC
You left me in pieces
Never looked back
You never told me why
And treated me so bad
While I gave you all my love
All you cause me is a broken heart
So now i'll forget you
Try to stop thinking of you
What my heart won't allow
My mind can do
I'll have to cease saying "I love you"
But
If you knew how much
I've hurt
will you come back?
Those tears I've shed
All of these *****
Cause you know I want and I will
But you're not there
And life will never be the same again
Leigh Herondale 2013
Oct 6, 2015
Oct 6, 2015 at 7:59 PM UTC
Counting down the days after that day
You said goodbye and walk away
If only I knew that it would hurt me so
I never ever should have let you go
Tracing back the steps up to your door
Where we'd lie awake up until four
We'd fight in your car and then make up again
Now my heart is torn, refusing to mend
I remember that day you played your guitar
Those nights we'd wish upon a star
Praying that this would never end
Now we aren't even friends
We were so many things, so many places
So many dreams, waterfalls of kisses
If only I knew it would be this way
I never should have left that day
©Leigh Herondale September 2015
Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 9:02 AM UTC
A lonely sailor
Brave the seas alone
One day came a ship
Asked to sail side by side
Together they faced each angry storm
And even slumber with the calm tide
Another storm his sail was torn
He said he'll shortly duck
She was shocked and forlorn
But he promised he'll be back
She waited every sunset
Till the very last she could witness
But he never came
Still she patiently waits
A lonely sailor again
© Leigh
Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 1:02 AM UTC
What is it about you guy in white
That sets fire to my heart
Adrenaline cursing through my veins
I don't even know where to start
What is it about you guy in white
That sends me running to the core
Though try as I might I fail
You're just too precious to ignore
What is it about you guy in white
That makes me want to write a song
Do things I've never done before
Go places I never dare explore
There's something about you guy in white
That stirs and calms my storm
It's been restless for a while now
Ever since that day you came along
Leigh Herondale September 2015
Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 5:35 AM UTC
There was this girl who likes to write dark, lonely poems
Until this unnamed guy came along.
Leigh Herondale September 2015
Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 4:35 AM UTC
We may be a tangent line
Meant to meet only once,
There is one thing i'm sure of tho
That moment I held your eyes with mine
I swear we were infinite
Leigh Herondale August 2015
Aug 29, 2015
Aug 29, 2015 at 1:14 PM UTC
I met the love of my life today
I didn't say hi and he didn't say hi
I don't know his name
He does not know mine either
Our eyes just locked up and there
Instantly I fell
Tho love seems so sweet and giving,
Our line is that kind of a tangent.
But in that moment that
I got to hold his eyes with mine,
I swear we were infinite.
Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 9:44 AM UTC
But liking you is wrong in so many levels.
Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 1:06 AM UTC
You picked up my poem so I guess you want to know
Of such old story I witnessed long ago
Some might sob and feel their heart tear
Others might shrug, pass it all in one ear
Some may either laugh, even call me a loon
For I once knew a girl who fell in love with the moon
She had him on her fingertips but couldn't ever catch
So close yet so far, impossible to touch
Bittersweet moments comes when nighttime falls
I can hear her heart, I bled over its silent calls
I had the liberty to watch her moon-lit face
The sadness it reflects I want to drench in my embrace
Years passed but still she couldn't hide
The way she looks at him, eyes could never lie
Alas! the delight of seeing her love under the blanket of the night
Days, week, decades, I've lost count
But I still think about her, here and now
Haunted by the memory of remorse and regret
And that face of a girl I couldn't quite forget
It kills me that I never got to tell
That all these time I loved her, I also fell
And for eternity, with this I have to dwell.
Leigh Herondale May 2015
Aug 24, 2015
Aug 24, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
He likes pretty girls
And I don't quite fit
© Leigh Herondale June 2015
Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 11:42 AM UTC
Everyday he writes her a song
He writes about how they met
The jokes they cracked, the stories they shared
Everyday he sings her a song
And everyday, he falls harder for the writer.
Everyday she writes a new poem
She writes about a love she can’t return
A love she doesn’t deserve, doesn’t want
Everyday she hears a new song
And everyday, she breaks the songwriter’s heart.
Two writers seemingly perfect for each other,
But cannot be together
He loves her, she doesn’t
“I just can’t love you the way you want me to”
Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 9:18 PM UTC
We didn't get along the first time we met , I was intimidated that there was an electric shock with in us.
I don't remember how but we got close to each other that we slept together that night .
We exchanged numbers and we had late night calls, non - sense / stupid conversation that our mums wouldn't like.
Things got serious between us , see we ain't a thing but we held each others hand like you were mine and I was yours.
Your hugs would stop the world around us and it would feel like its just the two of us .
Months passed
I confessed to you what I felt and you accepted it, but you didn't tell me that you liked me back.
I was hurt.
Years and Months passed
I still remember our conversations and the late night calls . I can't help myself smiling like an idiot just when I try to reminisce all those happy memories we made.
My heart aches because I am yours and you are not mine.
we got tricked by time and fate.
Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 2:49 PM UTC
Maybe it never really dies,
Maybe it just hids there somewhere,
And when you see him again
All of it comes back in a glimpse
Like it were never gone
Like you're 15 again.
© Leigh Herondale July 2015
Jul 29, 2015
Jul 29, 2015 at 6:16 PM UTC
I want
so bad
to be somebody
to someone.
© Leigh Herondale June 2015
Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 11:18 AM UTC
I just want for him notice me
That i'm here
I exist
I breath
My eyes is set only towards him
Even though
He doesn't even see me
Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 10:10 AM UTC