Note: This poem is another entry in Real Poetic's Mini Challenge which you can find here. The Prompt: Explore the theme of your greatest fear.
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You’re the only
Ghost I believe in
The only shadow
I flinch from
Your smile is
The only one that
Carves me up like
A butcher’s blade
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I’ve spent my whole life
Drowning in questions and
Craving closure but
Your what ifs are
What cling to my skin
Like leeches
Draining me of
Hope and healing
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You are everyone else’s sunshine
But to me you are the raindrops
That caress my heart
Making it stop and
Then speed up
You are the storm
The one I adore
Yet break for
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You:
Hauntingly, harrowingly
Never mine
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You:
The only one
I have fallen
Frustratingly, feverishly
Fervently in love with
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Out of all the
Logical, understandable
Fears in the world
I continually choose
The most shamefully
Weak and heartbreaking
One of all
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That you will never love me
(At least not as desperately
As I have always loved you)
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Impressive!!! Loved it!!!❤️❤️💕
Damn I feel that sunshine/rain metaphor. Great stanza. I like how the prompt is taken slant here. You have to think about the poem’s implications to see how it fits. Very clever!
At first I thought the ghost you feared was the simple questions prefaced by "What if...?" Becoming lost in the many regrets we might have for the past, blocking out any hope for the future sounds truly frightening (& my continuing nightmare). But all the "what ifs" surrounding love lost do tend to be a big part of that nightmare.
Outstanding. Powerfully written with emotion. Loved it a lot.
Oh God. This felt like it was written for me. This is exactly how I felt and still feel for him. I loved your poem!
Stunning take on the challenge. Felt every line, all that desperation and sadness.