I WISH

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  • Lost Love

    I WISH

    I SEE YOU
    AND IT TAKES EVERYTHING IN ME
    NOT TO CRY.
    IF SOMEONE MENTIONS YOUR NAME
    IT'S ALL THE POWER I CONTAIN
    NOT TO DOUBLE OVER WITH INNER PAIN.
    THE ONE THING I'VE EVER WANTED
    WAS GIVEN TO ME
    AND THEN SNATCHED AWAY.
    I CAN'T GO INTO TOWN
    AND HOLD MY HEAD HIGH.
    YOU WERE MY EVERYTHING
    AND YOU LEFT ME EMPTY AND BROKEN;
    WITH NO REMEDY.
    I PUT ON A FRONT YET
    I STILL HAVE NOT FOOLED MYSELF.
    YOUR WORDS GAVE ME HOPE
    BUT THE MONMENT YOU SAID THEM,
    WE BOTH KNEW THEY WERE FALSE.
    I WISH I KNEW AWAY
    TO TURN OFF MY HEART
    THEN MAYBE I COULD SLEEP AT NIGHT.
    I NEVER LOVED ANYONE, LIKE I DID YOU.
    AND IF I COULD CHANGE THE PAST...
    I WOULDN'T HAVE EVER LOVED YOU!
    YOU GAVE ME A REASON TO LIVE,
    AND TO BE HAPPY.
    HELL...I THOUGHT YOU FELT THE SAME.
    IF I COULD IMPROVE THE WAY I LOOKED,
    BELIEVE ME I WOULD.
    YOU SEEMED DO DIFFERENT;
    YOU SEEMED SO TRUE.
    WHY IN THE WORLD, DO I STILL
    WORRY ABOUT YOU?
    I WANTED TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING;
    I TREATED YOU LIKE ROYALTY.
    GUESS YOU NEVER CARED...
    WHAT I THOUGHT OF YOU.
    I KNEW THINGS WOULD BE HARD,
    IF WE WERE TO END.
    BUT I NEVER DREAMED
    IT'D BE TOUGHER THAN DEATH!
    THE ONLY PERSON ON EARTH
    I LIVED FOR WAS YOU.
    WHY THE HELL DID YOU
    SO WILLINGLY LEAD ME ON?
    MAYBE SOME DAY
    I'LL BE ABLE TO RIDE BY YOUR HOUSE
    AND NOT BE BLINDED;
    FROM TEARS IN MY EYES.
    I WISH YOU ONLY KNEW,
    THE MENTAL BATTLES I'M GOING THROUGH!

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

    lizard760’s Poems (7)

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    DEAR LORD 2
    not the way 3
    LOVE GONE WRONG 0
    goodbye 1
    LEAVE ME BE 2
    I WISH 0
    free 0