Posts Tagged ‘relationship’

Don’t listen to them
You gave me away
before, only
for me to be returned
in shards
inked
with memories
pulsing
with pain (more…)

Am I supposed to
Let
Go,
Is this
Why
I have not found
You?

I have slowly
Stripped
each of my
Criteria
I’m holding on
To the
Last
One

I don’t want to
Let go
To go
beyond my
Comfort zone
And all the world
I have ever
Known

Must I let go
Of my
Last
Criterion

To find
You?

Photograph courtesy of Umar Ibn Hussain

More than the black eyes and nights spent afraid
More than the marks on her skin that you laid
More than the bruises you told her to hide
More than the illogical rules you forced her to abide
The most cruel thing you did was to language deny
Crippling for life her ability to get by

Unable to articulate to the people around her (more…)

you said
the right words
only
you were
the wrong person

photo courtesy sxc.hu

I believe that people come and go in our lives for a reason, for a need whether theirs or ours or both, and when they leave, it’s because that need has been fulfilled or a lesson taught.

Don’t be sad they came and went or weren’t more; be grateful you were in each other’s lives and for the lesson they taught you or learned from you.

*smile*

photograph by Szabo Borka

If I love the whole of me
I must love half of you
because half of you
and half of her
makes up the whole of me

I, with the fortune of love
from those around me,
have learned to love all of me
And because I do, then surely
half of you can be loved too

Not the half that made you
lose us for eternity, made it
hard to love you like
blood and biology and society
tells me I should do.

I imagined we could wander the river, side by side
Gaze in awe at the lush green secrets nestled within the city
And laugh at witty remarks, yours or mine

I waited for you to seize my hint
and ask to rendezvous in the falling dusk
on shared secrets and innermost thoughts
and our enjoined shadows stretched softly on the ground

Alas you did not respond and I
I went away disappointed.