Love Unrequited Poem by Daniel Y.

Love Unrequited



Love unrequited,
please throw me away.
‘Cause I'll never leave you,
and I cannot stay.

Love unrequited,
is like a lung collapsed.
Like waiting for a loved one,
and the plane's already crashed.
Like looking for constellations without any stars.
Like watering flowers on a desolate mars.
Like beating a wall with my bare-knuckled hand.
Love unrequited,
I cannot stand.

Love unrequited,
O, how I despise
how much I love you,
those still empty eyes.
Like a double-front war, with no home to keep.
Like buying indulgence, and the price is too steep.
Like reading a romance, with the last chapter omitted.
Like a like a waterfall-drought,
my Love unrequited.

I know that your smile,
deep down, is false.
But Love unrequited,
I know nothing else.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: vulnerability
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Queeny Gona 23 July 2014

Agony of unrequited love is portrayed in deep. The heart throb is crystal clear in each line Have a glance at Love Ride, Love Again!

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Daniel Brick 07 July 2014

This poem seems to be an exercise in paradoxes. You generated a dozen or so clustered around the image of unrequited love, and they're sharp and direct, nothing fuzzy or sentimental. The opening stanza has a winning pair that express a familiar lovers' paradox: I'LL NEVER LEAVE AND I CAN'T STAY. And a few lines later vis a vis the beloved's alluring eyes, O, HOW I DESPISE, HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU. It's as if Catullus's famous or infamous paradox from 2100 years ago just won't stop: I LOVE AND I HATE.

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