All Over Again

I want you to feel my pain
The pain you inflicted
Every time you didn't call or care to let me know
That you had offered me a love you didn't intend to show
and that nights would be lonely
because your true one and only
was out of my hands,
cruel to my heart,
free from my arms,
and tearing me apart.
It was your needs you tended
and mine you disregarded, and me you offended
each time I sat home and pretended
that everything was splendid
and going just as intended
and when leaving you was recommended
I took those words and I blended
every truth into denial until the day that it ended.
Now here I am again
and when I reach for your hand
I will hold your neglect,
I will embrace disrespect,
wrap my emotions around you and protect
the cause to this affect
even though I know what to expect,
All over again

Reviews

[ANTO]

This is a classic! It describes the unrequoited love that often abounds in relationships where one can let oneself become a doormat for the one we love even tough we see nothing but pain in the same. An exercise in futility perhaps eased a little by poetic exorcising.
Well written indeed KJ!

[Trace]

Relationships like a carton of milk in the fridge,
When they go bad, you toss them out and go get you a new one.

Nobody has the right or power to make you be miserable.

Insightful poem, Trace

[Vidya Bacchus]

so often people take each other for granted and you realize you feel more than the other person does and try harder than they do .Please feel free to review my work I would be honoured.

[Lethu]

"I want you to feel my pain
The pain you inflicted
Every time you didn't call or care to let me know
That you had offered me a love you didn't intend to show"

What a great collection to start of with and by the fourth line one could more or less make out where you going with this. I love the rhyme and the use of paradoxes..good penning.. :)

[David Lewis Paget]

Now here's a lesson in self-punishment. What is it about love that turns normally well adjusted adults into idiots? Looking back, I can see there were many times when I should have cut the cord and walked away. No matter how many times the relationship(s) rebounded, they fell apart in the end. So much time wasted! A nice, well written comment on an absurdity of human nature.

[TL Boehm]

the cyclical cycle of a sick relationship. its a vortex. A black hole. and yet we keep circling. A wonderful write.

[Sasha]

oh my gosh I can relate to this so much !!
I love it !
Incredible !

[jinxxnij]

I felt this one. To my core. WOW!

[Perkele.7885]

The underlying reason for the reoccurring cause and effect has eluded me here. Why did you take the recommendations offered you and then blend truths and denials. Truths need to be understood with clarity and not clouded within a blend of untruths! Just asking, as I liked the write!

[Troy Henson]

Love is strong.

This was a very well put together piece. The flow was brilliant for me.
You captured emotion well in this.
Great piece.
Regards