Tuesday, March 5, 2013

March Poetry Challenge (5th March, 2013)

Requiem for an Unrequited Love

Keenly waiting for that which will never be
Calm façade showing nought
Keeping that last flicker of hope alive
Crossing names off the dwindling list

Any sign that I have imagined,
Signs that clearly are not there,
Are only heightened by your friendship
Showing me a love that cannot be.

Just break my heart and be done with it,
Leaving me having is hardly fair.
Justice surely would be to let me go,
Let me escape the spell you put me under.

Maybe, perhaps, it’s not up to you.
Sometimes it slips my mind.
Maybe I have to snap out of this headspace,
Stand up to my own wandering imagination.

Alone and underwhelmed by love,
Grabbed by the fleeting and unreturned,
Assaulted by ridiculous images and
Ghostly feelings that never last.

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