Poem: Unrequired

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Why must I fear loving you?
Why must love and fear intermingle so?
Why must these threads threaten to pull me apart?

Fear holds me with vicious talons
Promising disaster if I move but an inch.
I am paralyzed yet cannot find repose.

All the while, my love for you burns within my body.
With undying flames, love promises to consume all
The fire of love has never burned me so.

Love for me so often is a child of light, lifting me to the limitless.
Yet love comes now full of worldly substance
This love is an unending hunger.

A love that is too raw and too unrefined
It devastates me and leaves me aching
I cannot transform it.

You are the new gravity.
My thoughts and feelings ever draw towards you
Concern and interest occupy every instant.

I seek understanding,
Driven to find the elusive path to your heart
I must reach you

I speak to my confessor, seeing solace
Yet I can never say enough
Any relief is momentary

I cannot unburden my heart,
The weight of these emotions
Will not be dissipated

Beloved,

I would joyfully serve you
Yet you are silent and issue no requests
You are content, untroubled by this storm

I would worship at your temple,
For my love inspires me towards great adoration
Yet the doors are barred and chained.

You smile at me,
In simple friendship,
Unknowing of my torment

I long to be close to you,
You stand near me, but move no closer
Nor beacon me.
Nor welcome my advance.

Ah there is too much of this world in this love
Too little of the transcendent
Nothing to carry me back to spirit

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Tell her.

A

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LA,

Thank you for your thoughts, but a confession of love to my beloved already wasn’t enough.

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She was probably a ‘rabbit’

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Ouch. I hope you get through this quickly. Love not realised is almost as painful as love lost but there is a purpose for you.

A

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xanderman,

i read the title as ‘unrequited’ until i took a closer look. by design? must have been. nice touch. and a decent poem.

on a non-critiquing note, and under the category of ‘silver linings,’ you have your love for her. that much is yours. no one can touch that or take it away from you.

all the best,

r.

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i love the poem…
and the avatar…

:stuck_out_tongue:

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You mentioned telling her, but I would bet she doesn’t understand the depth of your love for her. I would let her read this poem from you. If she doesn’t see it (and you) after reading it… set her free and move on. The woman who is your greatest love is waiting for you right now, so…

Get to it.

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liquidangel,
Thank you for your hope for me.

rainey,
Thank you for your review and for pointing my attention upwards.

Hassooni,
Thank you for expressing your joy.

Bessy,
Thank you for your motivating words.

I think I have managed to reach a point of successful transformation with these feelings of mine. I understand why I was so caught up in this feeling of love. I understand where my perceptions went wrong and how I used a tiny grain of truth to trick myself.

Now I can move forward and spend some time with sorrow.