You Have My Heart

This is a deeply personal poem for me. Written in a moment of great heartache that still lingers. This lost love- it is my muse.

You have my heart

Not just a piece

Not just a part

The whole thing

It sits under your bed

Buried but protected 

But if you placed it next to yours

It would awaken

My feelings are immense

Maybe too much for circumstances

how do I state how much I love you

But by reminding you 

Every morning you leave it

Here I am telling you 

What you don't like

Rhymes for your reasons

Every night when you lay in bed

The heart in your chest beats hard

Once for you and twice for me

For in those moments you dream 

my heart lives again

 I feel it in my dreams

In my chest-the empty space

Where my heart up and left 

Leaving me waiting on your very breath

I smell you all around me

My skin tingles at imagined touch

If I close my eyes I see your smile

For a moment tears well up

Why can't you see 

The conversations our hearts have

In their own time and space

They say what I can only write

For my mouth doesn't utter 

This pain that persists

The longing that stays

But my heart says it loud

Are you listening?

Reviews

[hanir]

Very well written!
"For my mouth doesn't utter 
This pain that persists
The longing that stays
But my heart says it loud
Are you listening?"
Oftentimes we believe we still have a lot of unspoken words for someone. We try to say those words loud enough. But unfortunately, that person is no longer capable of listening... An absolutely lost love!

[Saruwa]

Thank you Hanir! Your words are always so fitting and encouraging