
I always wanted someone to love me as they would love a poem,
that’s written right from heart,
the heart that pounds when eyes meet,
the heart that weighs pounds, carrying sorrow and sadness.
You know how hard it is to write poems?
Poems,
about life that is like a broken bridge,
about birth that always has ends,
about the death that has cries and mourns,
about love that has no perfect definition,
about happiness that keeps fading away like a cresent moon.
I failed to realise the fact that every spring follows autumn,
I never knew that a garden full of hugs, kisses and cuddles would soon be a barren land, loosing everything bit by bit.
If I look back, at the past, at the days I lived for others,
I drown in the guilt of choosing the wrong ones.
Love is blind, they say, I can’t deny, it blinded me so much that I put me down and down, making me drown in the ocean of fakeness.
When they say that all the love you give to wrong people come back to you, they instilled hope for the first time in life,
I had to think twice, thrice or infinite times to fall in love again,
should I make myself more vulnerable to heartbreaks and heartaches?
I survived those hard times with high doses of caffeine and sleep,
I spent hours of analysing, reasoning, ruminating about all the holes that I failed to fix.
There was someone who stayed all the way,
in ups and downs,
when life unveiled the worser sides of itself,
when people abandoned,
when my veins grew fragile
carrying blood that’s heavy with grief,
when everything collapsed.
It was me, it was my flesh, my 206 bones (few fractured yet holding each one strong and tight).
It is okay to still be putting yourself together, I say to myself.
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say “I”,
I didn’t know to love myself and they didn’t know to love me.
I gently picked up the shriveled petals of my heart and fixed it with resins of kindness,
in the process of fabricating the first chapter of life, I found a book within, waiting for a reader.
You know what the hell love feels like?
Never better and beautiful than self-love.
I began to love myself not in the hope that I’ll be loved by someone else on someday,
but to believe that,
“there is way out, the way is sometimes within, hidden and concealed, visible to the right ones.
go find your book.
I wrote this in February and is very close my heart since I began performing poems with this piece.
Thank you so much for reading! ❤️
This has to be my favorite piece of yours, it is simply amazing. I absolutely love the raw honesty and authentic vulnerability throughout. I can totally relate to this and you describe the emotion in such a magical way! Spectacularly done, my dear friend 🖤🤗
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Aww thank you so much, Ace! Your comments are as lovely as your poems. Thanks for always being around and making me feel so good. ❤️
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Such a moving and heartfelt piece. Truly enjoyed. Wonderful.❤️
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Thank you so much 🥰
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Truly my pleasure.💕
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This is soooooo beautiful Hema!❤
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Thank you soooooo much! ❤️
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words are not actions
nouns to verbs
skill still
walk on water
wade hot to cold
and the story is never too old
she and he
could not be more far apart
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Nice one! Thanks for sharing
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we be one community.
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Of course!
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are you following me? such shamelessness eh>?
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Oh my!!! What an incredible message has been conveyed by this beautiful poem!!! 😍😍😍 Dear sissy, I am in love with this and I am commenting only after I read thrice.. It’s so full of hope and self love. Thank you for sharing with us ❤️❤️
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Awww Sissy! Thank you so much. This is one of my favourite poems too ❤️
So glad that you liked it!! 😘
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Oh wow, Hema. This blew my mind. So beautifully written. I read it over and over again because it was so beautiful and I couldn’t resist from doing that! Well done, you!
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Aahhhh this means a lot! Thank you so much, Chechi ❤️
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You’re most welcome 🙂
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Beautiful expression. It is right that to fully understand love one must fall in love with him/ herself. When you love ‘I’ only than can you complete the ‘You’.
Stay blessed always 🌹🌹
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Yesss! Indeed. Thank you so much for reading, Sir!
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Love Is A Pool To Fill
And Feel Within
A Fountain
Overflows
to Give to Give
When Enough
Complete and
Whole is the Water
We aRe and the Rest
of the Ocean is Ours Sharing
As Waves to Feel More in Ease
Love is A River At Best And Never
An Ocean That Drowns With Waves
too Tired
To Rise
After
Falling
Falling
As Falling
In Love the
Feeling is At Most
Always Temporary
Yet RiSinG iN LoVE For
All Comes From An Ocean Sky Deep Warming All…
SMiLes Dear Hemalatha Have A RiSinG Life oF Loving All..:)
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Aahh this is so beautiful like a poem! Thank you so much for reading and sharing this ❤️
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SMiles Lots
Of Stars
To See
Of Creativity
Where Your
Poems
Roam
Dear Hemalatha☺️🙌❤️
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You can’t expect anyone tp love you if you don’t love yourself. This was so heartfelt, di, I loved it!! ❤😍
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Sooo gladddd! Thank you so much, Nehal ❤️
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and you sprang like spring upon this shore,
nothing like it was known before,
and splash of colour in the wind and waves did bring,
the movement of water Independant of the season brings,
for air and earth and fire and water too are carried through out,
in constant hues,
each season,
simply showing you too…
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🥺
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Absolute gorgeous, dear Hema! This here is my favorite, “there is way out, the way is sometimes within, hidden and concealed, visible to the right ones.” True, and beautiful. ❤
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Thank you, Sir! ❤️
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You’re welcome, Hema. Always! ❤️
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So beautiful!! Mind blowing❤
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Thank you! ❤️
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It’s gorgeous 💜 Thank you for sharing it with us Hema.
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Ahh it’s a pleasure! Thank you so much for reading ❤️
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Beautiful poem…liked it👍
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