Tortured Ambition

Today you told me not to get torn up, simply because you are.
You said that you are always "unsatisfied with life"
And that's the moment I felt my heart stop.

Give me the words to speak or a song to sing
So that love can roll off my lips and plummet into your tortured soul.
I thought that I had conjured them already, but I suppose they weren't enough.

I know this is a disease that I can't cure,
But I so desperately desire to be the one who breaks you free of the thoughts that hold you captive.

I love your ambition and wish I could take some as my own,
But it's become a cell in which you beg for escape.
The tragedy is that you can't hear your own pleas.
I can, however, because our souls have become one.
We are forever intertwined, and one day will be husband and wife.

So how dare you have the audacity to tell me not to care so much?
I can not stop, and I have no desire to.

We are the sea, turbulent yet beautiful
And we will never dry up.
So bury your statement in the sand;
I never want to hear it again.

I will go through storms with you, and I will go through the silent sunsets as well,
But I will never dull my emotions for you.

That's not what love is.

Reviews

[‘Thoughts In Time..]

True that’s not what love is but if they don’t want you to help and cannot accept your love you cannot change them- wanting to free someone is a blessing but if they hold themselves captive by their own thoughts there’s only so much we can do otherwise in the end you are broken - love is a dangerous thing at times but then again love overcomes all- need to find the balance and do what’s right for you in situations like this- never easy- wonderful porm🌹

[Rosie Brooklin]

Thank You! You're so right.. it's a very bittersweet reality.

[‘Thoughts In Time’🌹]

My pleasure the choice of feelings are up to us alone🌹

[barleygirl]

Brilliant love sentiments, complex & authentic like real life. I get so tired of love stories being told in a too simplified way, everything too perfect. You really capture the nuances of what real life feels like, how complicated it can be, & you do this with great analogies from nature. My favorite line: "I know this is a disease that I can't cure" . . . becuz so often a lover takes too much responsibility for trying to make another person happy (something that needs to come from within). You've really nailed a realistic & somewhat torturous situation between lovers (((HUGS))) Fondly Margie

[sette]

totally true marriage is based on vows, literally a union of souls but not to become dependent on each other in all aspects especially where emotions are concerned.

[Nipplegrinder]

Heartbreakingly beautiful.
Starkly vulnerable.

[Rosie Brooklin]

Thank you!

[Coyote Poetry]

You are right Rosie.
"I will go through storms with you, and I will go through the silent sunsets as well,
But I will never dull my emotions for you.
That's not what love is."
The above lines. Wonderful and true words. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Rosie Brooklin]

Thank you! I'm glad you appreciated the ending

[Coyote Poetry]

I liked this poem Rosie and you are welcome.