you saved my life
your love
the antidepressant I needed
when choosing to live was impossibly hard
you healed me
stayed by my side as I shed years
of unnecessary self-doubt
your love
has been the balm for my tender wounds
because on the darkest days
when I am least lovable
you still love me
Tag: Love / Heartbreak
obviously any poems about love, heartbreak, and relationships
butterfly, noun [poem]
butterfly, noun
1 the form a caterpillar takes after dissolving in its cocoon; or
2 the things that flutter in my stomach when I get nervous sometimes; or
3 you were the branch that held my chrysalis while I melted into nothingness; or
4 you were an anchor as I remade myself a butterfly with wings unfurled and life renewed; or
5 it is a wish in flying colors; or
6 you are a wish granted in flying colors
English [poem]
the English language is a funny thing
impossibly complex
with words and phrases changing their meaning
in the blink of an eye
there’s magic in the transformation
try three common phrases
I promise
I love you
I’m sorry
these are the holy triad
of a good romance story
he promises he’ll stay
they apologize for their mistakes
she finds love and keeps it
but these three can be weapons too
I promise
I love you
I’m sorry
they can be a trap
the bait and switch that keeps you immobile
in a bad place
like twisted chains around your wrists
the three biggest lies ever told
linguistics are a funny thing
but sometimes
you won’t feel like laughing
stranger [poem]
love is a stranger that doesn’t shop where I work
love is too busy to go out to a used book store
on a random Tuesday
love is probably unaware of my existence
love is a man with a heart three sizes too big
but still maybe too full for me right now
love is tired of sleeping in a bed as empty as mine
love is eventually going to say hello
but for now
love is still a stranger
cupcake [poem]
you’re more than a cupcake
frosting and fluff and fun
you’re so much more than a finger food
darling you
are a chocolate fondue fountain at a dessert buffet
you’re awesomeness
oozing over everything you touch
no one can approach you without the urge
to let themselves be coated in chocolate
your inner light is the best chocolate
fancy shit from Belgium
you are glorious and gluttonous and
everyone wants a piece of you
anything can be poison [poem]
it’s your birthday when I mourn you the most
your absence like a death I can’t get over
poignant and painful
loving you was the hardest lesson on
the way anything can be a poison in the right amount
the dragon [poem]
if home is where the heart is
then I’m glad to call you my castle
a fortress of protection when my squishy parts are
battered and bruised
you are the dragon
guarding my tower as I rest
because every knight thinks he’s prince charming
but they never bother to actually learn my name
and so you don’t let them bother me at all
you are the moat
with all its alligator allies
the jaws and claws that deter the undetermined
from reaching my keep
you are my home
because my heart is safe
under the blanketed warmth of your roof
careless hands [poem]
I regret opening up to some people
the ones who didn’t deserve to know me like that
everything holy made to grace their careless hands
their own souls hidden
in tight coils of self-loathing and fear
I knew this
knew they weren’t ready
but like a puppy I hoped this one would be different
these hands would be steady
gentle and kind
this door would open to a heart
with room for me in it
happy heart [poem]
don’t let anyone mock the soft surface
of your happy heart
they’re just jealous of how easy it is for you
the vivid pulse a steady sparkle of life and light
if only they could laugh so loud and love so deep
but they can’t
so they won’t want you to either
ignore them sweetheart
let your soul cry and yearn and giggle and dance
and never stop being a spinning top of life
in a world of statutes
more openly [poem]
I talk about finding you
more openly now
love
knowing people
are far more adaptable
than I ever gave them credit for
my open marriage and subtle hunt for you
are simply love in a different form
it makes me hum with pleasure
when I don’t have to defend my open heart
from closed minds
so I take chances
talk about you without knowing
exactly when you’ll get here
but hey
no one will be surprised by your arrival
introduced long before you walked through the door
strangest moment [poem]
the thought of you
creeps up in the strangest moments
a memory of your smirk
slipping in between the folds of my laundry
you shadow so much of what I was
before it all came down
you have hooks in my bones so deep
my marrow aches at the sound of your name
and you never even loved me
with the way you’re seared into my psyche
I can only be glad you never touched my body
at least it remains an empty cup
to be refilled when I manage to find myself again
rudderless ship [poem]
I finally realized
you were a rudderless ship
that could never lead me back to shore
so I learned how to swim
and dove into the ocean with every intention
of getting sand stuck between my toes
once again
a different kind of love [poem]
if love is a choice between
going without sex or
trusting a stranger to become a lover and friend
I’ll become celibate
love is so much more than physical
and as much as I enjoy sex
I enjoy being happy more
loving an asexual is all about
the simplicity of shared openness
that she and I are us
without definition
she and I are warmth in winter
hot cocoa with marshmallows
she and I are also
cool breeze and swimming pools in summer
we are freshly baked bread
because love is something everyone wants a piece of
the minute its present
she and I are balance
a yin yang of temperaments
we are love without sex
loving instead with fingers through hair
and back rubs
and a steady shoulder to lean on
if loving my wife like this is strange
maybe it’s your definition of love that’s the problem
Larissa Lee 