I had loved and been loved before knowing you, but with you only have I known the rare and profound romantic love that has been legendary for centuries. Down to the very core of my being I still feel you. Why I allowed myself to run you away I will never understand. C.B.
You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is until you have lost it.
Anonymous
I was wrong to think you saw me as “the one” you loved. I wanted that so badly! So when I’d ask you out and you were kind and sweet to me I thought there was more to it than you intended. You never led me on. I created my broken heart with my own delusion. B.D.
It’s amazing, some people say these small things,
one sentence, and it changes the way you feel about them in an instant.
Small little words that can hurt you so much
or make you fall deeply in love forever.
It changes everything.
Nothing between you is ever really the same again
even if they don’t know it, it still happens.
Unknown
Plainly simple, I still love you and often find thoughts dancing in my head about time we shared. The grief of our ending has long passed replaced by gratefulness for what was. I hope you are happy, healthy and enjoying your life. Always you’ll be in my heart. V.M.
Gazing out my window
I thought of yesterdays
The faces and the gestures
And how the laughter fades
Wondered if you’re happy
Or if you found your way
From long nights in November
And the promise that we made.
“Back Spaces” by Jeff Kurfess
There’s a sick feeling in my stomach and a knot in my throat. My head throbs and I can’t eat. Falling asleep is impossible sometimes. We both screwed up and I’m deeply sorry for my part. Are you suffering without me as much as I am without you? Can we try again? L.C.
For all sad words
of tongue and pen,
the saddest are those
‘It might have been.’
John Greenleaf Whittier
Only months after I left you a thousand miles behind did I even begin to get over you; to get better. I was shriveling emotionally. My heart was dying. It was too hard to stay there and be reminded of the memories of us all over that town. I had to move away to survive. K.H.
She lies awake,
Doesn’t know what to do,
Wondering how,
will she ever make it through.
She is in love
and believed the one
Who said I love you first.
He says he is sorry
But she knows it’s not true.
“Why?!” she screams
“I’d never have done this to you!”
Pretty Gurl Swag
Not once could I find the words. No time or place was ever just right for me to say “I love you”. We’ve been friends for seven years. I’ve loved you as far more than that for five of them. I waited too long and now you’re engaged. Do I keep my secret forever or tell you? W.F.
There is no greater agony
than bearing an untold story
inside you.
Maya Angelou
I went by your apartment wishing to catch a glimpse of you, but at the same time hoping I wouldn’t. I feel a strange combination of “I miss you” blended with “I don’t want you”. Even after how you hurt me I still love you, but my pride will never allow me to let you know. S.B.
A heart breaking
isn’t always as loud
as a bomb exploding.
Sometimes
it can be as quiet
as a feather falling.
And the most painful thing is,
no one really hears it,
except you.
Unknown
Becoming engaged to you was one of the happiest moments of my life. Work took me away for a year except for a few weeks, but I thought everything was fine. Now I’m dumbfounded the distance was enough for you to leave me behind. Did you ever love me at all? L.M.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
“Remember” Cistina G. Rossetti
Even though I don’t want you after how deeply you hurt me, my heart still jumps a beat when I hear about you. Seeing you by chance rattles me for hours. Finding old pictures of us disturbs my sleep for days. I don’t want you but I still love you. I wish that would go away. L.M.
Fire runs through my body with the pain of loving you
Pain runs through my body with the fires of my love for you
Sickness wanders my body with my love for you
Pain like a boil about to burst with my love for you
Consumed by the fire with my love for you
I remember what you said to me
I am thinking of your love for me
I am torn by your love for me
Pain and more pain
Where are you going with my love?
I am told you will go from here
I am told you will leave me here
My body is numb with grief
Remember what i have said, my love
Good bye, my love, good bye.”
Recited by an anonymous Kwakiutl Indian
of Southern Alaska to a missionary in 1896
It’s agreed going our separate ways is best. We’ve hurt each other far too much to expect our wounds to ever heal while we’re together. Yet, I can’t seem to leave and you don’t appear to want to either. What is it that holds us together and won’t let go. Is it love or madness? V.M.
I’m sorry
I’m not perfect.
I’m sorry
I’m here.
I’m sorry
I didn’t end this
I couldn’t disappear.
Unknown
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