Author Archives: hopeless romantic

195 – Can’t We Start Over Again ( Dedicated to —–)

Lover
Can we start over again?
Go back to remember when
You were in love
I was your all
With you on my arm
I was ten feet tall
We played love’s games
Like young lovers do
Looking to discover
How to kindle the flames

Beloved
It’s been too many years
Too many tears
We’ve passed the age
I have never forgotten
But life has changed me
In so many ways
Can we ever rekindle
And bring back those days?

Lover
We need to collect those years in between
And cherish those moments we have seen
We need to store them in our hearts
There to remain as we make a new start
Two separate lives together again
Eye to eye
Sigh to sigh
Thigh to thigh
Never to wonder why
A kiss on the lips
Will gently awaken
The love that was hidden
Ours for the taken♥
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“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips”
Percy Shelly
(1792-1822)

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160 – It’s Lost

It’s lost
Can it be found?
I’ve looked here
There and everywhere
To no avail
I’ve searched high
I’ve searched low
Have nothing to show
Where can it be?
Has it escaped me?
Do I go on looking?
Do I abide in my hope?
Is it all in vain?
With hope comes pain
Is it all a game?
Without it
I’ll never be the same

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194 – Love’s Not Always Enough ( In Memory of a friend)

In life’s living circumstances
We often fear the consequences
While avoiding the problem
Less hesitation
Less conversation
Truth with action
Should be the reaction

Love with words
Is seldom heard
When love’s not able
We tend to enable

Judgments of the heart
Can tear love apart
No one really knows
It goes as it goes
For sometimes
When things get tough
Love’s not always enough
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“Awareness without action is worthless”
Dr. Phil McGraw

“An open rebuke is better than hidden love”
Proverbs 27:5

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193 – Missing You

missingIt’s not the years
It’s not the times
It’s not the distance
Your face
Your touch
Your smile
Lasts for just a little while
It’s not the tug of my heart
It’s not the drops of my tears
It’ not the sound of my sighs
For
Who understands?
Who appreciates?
Who could care?
I just miss her being here

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192 – Second love

second loveListen young lovers
Listen to what I say
First love never goes away
The essence
The look
The kiss
The smile
May only last for a little while
Hold on to what you started
Never to leave broken hearted
A word to the wise
A second love
Is nothing but a compromise?

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190 – A Lover’s Lasting Countdown

  • 10. Now I understand why she was right and I was wrong.
    9. No one can hurt me when I’m alone.
    8. Old songs bring back happier times.
    7. I’m counting the days when I won’t miss her.
    6 It’s easier to leave then to fight for the one you love.
    5. I guess I should not have fallen in love with her.
    4. A heart full of pain is a heart full of love.
    3. It hurts to love someone who doesn’t love you back.
    2. Her love remains in my heart but not in my life.
    1. It wouldn’t hurt if I didn’t love her so much.
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084 – How do you?

How do you let go?
hurts to let goHow do you remember to forget?
How do you reminisce and not know?

How do you restrain your feelings?
How do you inhibit your emotions?
How do you suppress what’s appealing?
How do you curb your devotion?

How do you continue to hold it all together?
How do you persist in your mime?
How do you endure when things don’t get better?
“How do you hold on to her and let her go at the same time?”

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189 – What is There to Say?

onesidedloveThe most important decisions in life
Are sometimes the hardest to make
You choose
You loose
You make
You break
But that’s the chance you take

Love’s decisions last for only a day
But the hurt never goes away
You sleep on it
You dine with it
You challenge it
You romance it
But you never get over it

What is there to say?
Sometimes what’s important
Never gets said
Sometimes the things that matter
Are difficult to express
You bind them
You struggle over them
You languish over them
You lament over them
Soon only to find them
Slipping away

 With love there’s no exception
Pursue
Dismiss rejection
Words never spoken are words never heard
Let loose the feelings
Take a step above
For the heart can’t survive
A one-sided love

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188 – How Dull the Ear (Verity)

ear let him hearThe ear touches the heart
The heart inspires the mind
Often you find
The ear can’t define
The eye becomes blind

Truth like water
Cascades gently down
Flows like a river
Awakening the ground

The ear can’t hear
What the truth has said
There’s no lull to the truth
The ear is dull?
The ear is dead?

Flavors of dull that infect the ear
Indifference
Detachment
Unconcerned
Incoherent
Muffles what you hear

The drip drip drip of the truth
The drop drop drop of the clog
The beat beat beat of the heart
The mute mute mute of the mind

Truth like water flows
To all it has chose
Its message is clear
Open your ear
If you choose to hear

For hard truth sets you free from
Ignorance and deception

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“Better to get hurt by the truth
Than comforted with a lie”
Khaled Hosseini

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187 – How Many?

How many takes
To correct a mistake
How many tries
To dry your eyes
How many times
To make a poem rhyme
How many forgets
To dispel regrets
How many lessons learned
To begin to discern
How many lies
Before you open your eyes

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