The Only One

Another poem about unrequited love, haha, it seems to be my favorite topic to write about.

The only one.

THE ONLY ONE.

I scream it,

scream into the night,

and I can’t stop thinking about you,

now why can’t I, this is history repeating

itself, shouldn’t it be easier to learn how to forget

the second time around?

 

Yeah I thought my brother was the one,

how could that be, I was ready to run away with him

if he felt the same, but then I’d never meet you,

would I, but you might as well be my sister, that’s

how sure I am that all this that is roaring inside me

is just as impossible as him.

 

The only one, the only one,

I don’t wanna believe it,

 but my heart is crushed by the heavy weight of this,

it’s like someone dropped a 50 lb weight on my chest,

and I can’t get up even though I should be used to pain by now,

but I’m frozen and I can’t move and I want to take the next

airplane to Australia because I know that that’s the only way

I could forget you and live life and fall in love with someone else,

I can’t even do that, because there’s this voice deep inside me that’s

always chanting whenever I see you, think of you, hear you,

the only one, the only one, the only one, the only one, the only one,

and it just won’t shut up, and whenever I see you, think of you, hear you,

see you with him and know I pretty much have no chance, that voice starts

chanting again, the only one, the only one, the only one, the only one, the only one,

somehow I gotta learn how to exorcize it, can I do that, but I want to, do I want to?

There it goes chanting again.

Reviews

[alesuriko]

Good expression, you're definitely good at desperation and obsession pieces. The intense need to cling and monopolize something for your own is clearly vivid in your unrequited love poems. I liked the last line "There it goes chanting again." The tone of that line made me chuckle, it felt slightly sarcastic yet nonchalant. Good poem.

[George Love]

You seem to like writing that has a shape to it. Nicely done, well written and expressed.

[Tina Kline]

Sounds painful. Being obsessed with someone thinking they are the only one. Perhaps they are, perhaps they aren't. The the pain of this comes through your poem and the way it builds as they poem flows along.

[Breezie Kae]

I love the way your poetry builds.

[Colleen C Dunphy]

Ah, unrequited love..how it moves us.
It is the muse that moves me as well.
Thank you for sharing.