Confusion of Words.

The words won’t come out,

My mind is blocking the path from heart to pen,

Trying to make my emotions poetic,

Trying to “Show, Not Tell” like my English teacher says.

I need to get the words out,

The words on how I feel,

Or rather,

How I don’t know what I feel.

How sometimes I long to see you, even for your embrace,

When other times I’d like to forget I ever saw your face.

Sometimes I just want friendship,

Other times I want more,

But the most confusing is when I want nothing.

I don’t know if I hate, like or love you,

Or what I should be feeling.

You wormed your way into my heart once,

Then you shattered it,

Leaving me to pick up the pieces.

After I pretended you never existed for a year of my life,

I realized you were there again.

Unknowingly invading my heart and mind,

Burning the pathways of communication like you burned me with those simple words.

And now you’re in my mind, and maybe my heart,

And I can’t tell the difference.

And somewhere in the confusion,

The words, which usually come so easily, get stuck,

Trapped in the quicksand of my mind.

So now I can’t get my words out,

To tell my sorry tale,

Which means until you are gone from my life,

My heart will never heal. 

Author's Note

I hate how you have to put this in a genre. I don't really think this belongs in romance.

Reviews

[David Lee]

I could really relate to this.
Great work.
I like how you didn't separate them into different stanzas.