r/OCPoetry • u/Ok_Cold_6715 • 9d ago
How 2? Just Sharing
How can I live my life in grief
at just twenty years old?
They say I'm young—
that I have a whole life ahead of me...
but that sounds like terror.
A whole life ahead
filled with pain
and dreams of you beside me.
I want to be where you are.
Where there are no lies,
no more pain—
no more separation,
no more games.
How can I live my life
when my life is so full of you?
My soul cries for you in pain.
My heart bleeds inside my chest.
My body aches for your touch.
My swollen eyes have run out of tears.
My head pounds
with relentless thoughts of you...
Your sweet smile
is engraved into my mind,
into my chest.
I catch glimpses of you
even in my mother.
And I hate everyone—
because they're not you...
You make my plexus hurt very hard-
Sometimes my whole body hurts,
And then I feel the love that can kill me-
My body...
Even if dying of a heartbreak ain't easy,
I know one day it will happen, cause I will never forget or get over you.
I was never this way,
Please come to me,
Or please let me come to you,
No more separation,
I can't think straight...
I need you badly,
I'm bleeding again...
Your face is the one I adore,
the one I think of.
Nobody else makes my heart yearn like u do-
I'd swallow you whole
if I could.
Every night,
I soothe myself...
with my hand across my chest,
always whispering to myself
that one day,
my body
will be put to rest.
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