Love Poems

September 2009

Poems by SmartGirls like you:

You can be the one
Unity
As I Sit
The sea is nearing
If
Our conversations play over and over in my head
I don't deserve anything
I realized
Love is blue, love is harsh
False Hope
Nothing can make me feel better right now
She listened to his excuses
Silent Hour
Late Afternoon
My Favorite Place
Old Willow Tree
Frog
Good Night
Wind
Friends Gone
No Longer Mine
The only thing missing from me
Friends
I don't know what I was thinking
What About Me
You Did This To Me
I Miss the Days That the World Smiled For Me
You Are the Star in the Sky
Beaches
You've Broken the Walls Around My Heart
Oh Brother
Sights No Eye Should Ever See
They Married Fifty-Four Years Ago
Tangled
I'm Swimming In A Lake
Because Of You
One Magical Night
I Sit Alone In My Bed Wondering
My Familiar Friend
The Winter Beach
Excuses, Excuses
I Love You With A Passion
Most People Underestimate A Broken Heart
The Air Brushes My Cheek
Nature

You can be the one

There is nothing you can say to make it less painful. There is nothing you can do to fix it. Sometimes there are no words and no amount of comfort food,
jewelry, or even a box of tissues to make it any better. But there is one thing you can give.

Maybe it's not using your own precious money to buy something special or finding the right words to comfort them. Sometimes the only thing
you can give someone who's hurting is a message from your heart to theirs.

You can be the one that listens. Not the one who goes out and buys an expensive non-essential or the person who keeps saying it will be okay and to go see a counselor. Not even the one who tries hardest to fix it.

You can be the one who sits there and listens to the whole story. You can be the one who's still there listening at the end, without interrupting of forcing your opinion.

You don't even have to understand, you just have to be there waiting. Not trying to keep them up all the time or pushing them one direction or another.You just have to be the one waiting to catch them if they fall. You can be the one who never runs away, even when you don't know what to say and you can't make it better. You can be the person who listens and holds their hand. The person who, for better or for worse, is always there.

You can just hold them, just hug them. You don't even have to tell them you love them or that you care, because if you truly do, if the sentiment is genuine, if you are there listening at the end of the story, they will know. Giving someone a tight hug and letting them
tell you everything without any force or pressure speaks louder than screaming, "I love you" at the top of your lungs.

They say: "Actions speak louder than words," but neither does what a simple message from the heart does. Does a bouquet of flowers fix anything? It may brighten up your day or make you feel a twinge of hope, but it can never mean as much as actually being there.

Does telling them it will be okay make anything seem any better? When you've lost someone you love or you've had a traumatic experience, does someone saying "It will be okay" really make you believe it will? So there's nothing you can say, there's nothing you can do, and as Avril Lavigne sings, "there's no other way when it comes to the truth, because like it or not, we all lose."

Sometimes we lose the ones we love. Sometimes we lose hope. Sometimes we lose everything we worked for or everything that mattered most, but whatever we lose, however much we lose, no matter why we lose or how hard it is to lose, we've lost. Nothing can change that fact. Remember that when you're telling someone, "It will be okay." Remember that when you're out buying them an expensive gift or a box of tissues.
You can't manipulate life.

You can't buy someone happiness or wipe away the pain with wise words. All you can do is hold out your hand, hold out your heart and listen.
Wait as long as it takes for them to tell you how much it hurts. Don't push them or constantly try to keep them from falling. Let them fall.
Just be there at the bottom, when they hit rock bottom, waiting to catch them. Just hold them tight and listen. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, and if you really care about them, they will know, just because you listened. They will know because when you do that, you send a message with your heart, and that message speaks louder than anything.

If they should ask you to speak, to tell them what you're thinking, remember this: there's nothing I can say, there's nothing I can do, all I can promise is to listen and be there for you.

by Hayley

Unity

Unity is togetherness and friendship
Like red and white roses
A friendship like no other

by angel29, 11

As I Sit

As I sit looking at you from across the room, I cry. The knowledge that you will never be mine hits me like a two ton brick. I will never feel your warm, strong arms. I will never get to stare into your eyes (like she has). I will never be the girl you point to and say, "that's her." I will never be in your heart, for she has captured it, and there is no room for me. <;3

by Anessa, 13

The Sea is Nearing

The sea is nearing
Everyone is hearing
The voice of a thousand lovers
And dances abound
Wherever around
With the dance with the prince of all over
The sweet sound carries me
And so does the dance of the sea
The sweet sea

by Kaylyn, 14

If

If
I hadn't quit
If
I hadn't've gone
If
I was strong
Then
I wouldn't know true love
Then
I'd have no song
So
I'm saved
So
Now I am brave

by Rachel, 16

Our conversations play over and over in my head

Our conversations play over and over in my head.
A few brief moments in between scenes.
The way you comfort me, the way you seem to genuinely care.
But do you? At first it seems so, then it doesn't.
The way you joke with me, the way we share opinions and the way you avoid my gaze.
The way you look at her, the one you rejected, the one whose beauty radiates and the one who is my best friend.
The question is: who do I value more?

by Violet, 13

I don't deserve anything

I don't deserve anything
Because I am not good
At any

I even don't deserve to have
A talent but why?
I'm always very emotional
If I get low grades

I used to sing a song
But it does not suit me to sing
But why?

I really hate to think
That I am not good
Like others

by Marina, 14

I realized

One day I woke up
And realized,
Even though I think I am,
I'm not truly happy.
I thought I was happy
Because I got my 1st phone
I made really good friends,
Had a fun house,
And a very special life.
But I realized I was not truly happy,
That the stuff I had was not the happiness,
And I was longing for something more.
I wondered what that was for weeks
and finally when I woke up,
I realized it was love.
Not the relationships I have had,
All the boys I don't like, like me,
And vice versa;
I longed for a real relationship
Where everyone loved all.
Then I realized some more
That love is what makes the world go 'round,
And then I started to cry!
Because I don't have the love I hoped,
From a hot boy named Sean,
Or maybe I needed someone else...

by YOU KNOW WHO, 11

Love is blue, love is harsh

Love is blue, love is harsh.
Sometimes love can make me barf.
Whenever I love, I always get hurt,
So now I'm stuck in this relationship poop.
I hope that one day love will come to me
But until then, I am trapped in the emotion sea.

by lexipooh, 16

False Hope

Karma. It comes around. It does.
I gave it, you gave it, we're both guilty.
I want it, you might. What to do?
It's a feeling, an instinct, do we act
Upon it for the future of for the fact
Of having something to do?
I wonder. What could it be? Is it a
Teenage thing? Who knows?
Nothing has an age - so they say.
Flirting, is it? Everything is questionable.
You're a puzzle, I'm a puzzle. Where to go from here?
A risk? Take a risk. Just to see what we find,
What you feel, what I feel. No. Play it safe.
Yes, play safe. Be friends, wait. Let him, let her feel it.

by Jen, 17

Nothing can make me feel better right now

Nothing can make me feel better right now.
I feel like crying. Like my heart is crying without tears.
I feel my eyes so red, my heart wanting to scream.
I feel a hole inside my thorax, and it hurts ... it hurts a lot
I feel like in three seconds I'm gonna shed millions of tears in this keyboard
... But I don't cry

I keep asking myself why, without any reason
I keep closing my eyes hoping that when I'll open them, everything will change
I keep ... I keep taking deep breaths because it is all I can do in these moments
I keep hugging my pillows thinking that it's the person I wanna hug ... and have around here
And I keep reminding all stuff I did right and wrong,
Blaming myself
And... am I crying?

And while I'm doing all those things
With a huge pain in my heart
While millions of voices inside my brain are driving me crazy
While millions of poems written are bombarding me and killing me slowly
While <i>his name</i> is in my mind...his voice...his everything
And while I'm picturing him with <i>that girl</i>...that girl on my mind
While I'm doing all that
And more
I
I am
...
I am not crying

by Caarmen, 16

She listened to his excuses

She listened to his excuses
She listened to his lies
One thing she didnt know was
She was in for a surprise

I'm sorry I'll love you forever and more
It will never happen again
She was stupid and believed him
But they were happy then

The older they got the more violent he was
One hit then one punch
I'm sorry he said
But this was all to much

We're over, we're done
A kick and a toss and a slam of the door
He carelessly left her
As she lay on the floor

Shallow breaths and small little whimpers
She lays there, no movement on the hospital bed
As the man that hurt her lies
To fill the nurses' heads

Her eyes flutter open as the footstep grew stronger
There at the door was the man
That hurt her more
Than anyone living possibly can

Her heart fluttered and shook
As he grew nearer and nearer
The light above her
Grew clearer and clearer

All of a sudden her body went limp
And the lack of the constant beeping said
That the girl with broken bones and bruises
Was now a part of the dead

Her family mourned and
Her family cried
But the note in her jeans said
HE LIED

by Summer, 14

Silent Hour

'Tis quiet out this morning,
In the silent hour
Our street 'tis so silent,
And 'tis so mysterious
But yet 'tis so beautiful
Still I get a shiver
In the Silent hour

by Ash, 12

Late Afternoon

It is the late afternoon
I am outside
Staying dry
It is raining
Yet I am dry
In this cozy little place of mine
I hear the wind
How it begins to blow
My umbrella itching to go
To places
I have never seen
In the
Late afternoon
I feel content
Free of pain
Free of sorrow
Free of shame
In the
Late afternoon
I belong outside
I think to myself
Inside my house
No air to breathe
In the willow no shade
From the wind and rain
So here I'll stay
Safe and dry
In the late
Afternoon

by Ash, 12

My Favorite Place

Where the bluebirds sing
The stream flows oh so peacefully
Sunlight streams through the leaves
A forest just for me
My favorite place to be

by A 12 year old girl, 12

Old Willow Tree

The Old Willow
Oh look how it stands
Strong and tall
But gentle and kind
It sways in the wind
But yet it will not fall
It has a story to share
If one would listen
If one would care
So it sits
So it waits
So it stands
So very grand
Waiting
Just waiting
For its story to be heard

by aroll12, 12

Frog

The frog leaps
With incredible strides
Onto a branch
Up so very high
Pauses for a second
The moon shining on him
The predator leaps
But the frog
Leaps away

by aroll12, 12

Good Night

The crickets are chirping
Time to say goodnight
The lamp is glowing
Time to say good night
Turn off the lamp
Tell the crickets good night
Climb into bed
And say good night

by aroll12, 12

Wind

The Wind howls
All around
I can hear
Its calming sound

Lying awake
Not a sound
But the wind
All around

Not having to worry
Not having to think
Not having to see
Only having to listen
To the wind
All around

The moon
The stars
The sky so pale
But there's light
At the end of the trail
If you would just listen
To the sound
Of the wind all around

I hear nothing
But the sound
Of the wind
All around

The world is silent
Not a sound
But the wind
All around

I am quiet
Not breaking
The silence
Listening to
The wind

All around....

by Ash, 12

Friends Gone

Friends gone
Friends forgotten
Love turned rotten
All is dark like my heart, shadows disappear
Faster than a dart
All has faded without a mark
Now all that's left is me with a broken heart

by Mumbi, 17

No Longer Mine

You are no longer mine.

Your nutty hair, your toothy grin,
Your large hazel eyes fringed with long eyelashes
Are no longer just for my own eyes to feast upon.

Your kind words, your perseverance, and how
You manage to have high academics and play sports
Are no longer just for me to admire.

Another eats from the same food at my
Dinner table.

Another stares through the lens of my telescope,
Amazed at the view.

Another. Another.

You also belong to another, not just to me.

When you glance up, and I glance up,
And your hazel eyes meets my dark chocolate eyes,
A smile trickles at the corners of your lips,
And I quickly turn away, flustered,
My cheeks tinged with rouge.
I'm confident that you like me.

That's the way another feels, too.

She glances up; you glance up. Your hazel eyes
Meet her pale blue eyes, a grin pulling at
The corners of your mouth, and she turns away,
Confident that you like her.

Which one is right?
Which do you choose?
The more I think about it,
The more I see other girls flushing at
The sight of you.
Or maybe it's just me.

Does HER heart beat faster, throbbing, seeming to
Want to jump out of her chest when she sees you?
Do HER cheeks grow warm, red leaking into them,
At the mention of your name?
Does SHE squirm in her seat when she
Feels your eyes resting on her?
Does SHE want to faint when you say
Her name or praise her intellectual abilities?

Mine does, uh-huh.
Mine do, yes.
I do, I do.
Me. Me.

Does she? I don't know.
Maybe so.

But still,
You are
No longer mine.

by camicuti97, 12

The only thing missing from me

The only thing missing from me is where you should be
The way you hugged me
The way you melted my heart
Now I miss you
I wasn't ready for you to leave like a Baba bird,
Pushed out of the nest too early
Now every time I look at my fingers and see the spaces between them
I remember how yours fit perfectly there.
I miss you. I need you.
You're the thing that completes me.
I will love you forever.

by Anessa, 13

Friends

Some friends are just for good times
Others only help you when you're sad
Perfect friends are just like you
Honey, you're the best friend I've ever had.
In every way, you're special to me
Exactly like a best friend shold be.

Brightest star in whole of the sky,
Each and every day, I'm so glad we're friends
So loving and kind, such fun to be with,
This friendship we've got will never end.

Facing things together makes it easy to
Ride the biggest waves and reach the stars.
In a magic world, I'd fix it all so that
Everyone had a friendship like ours.
Now that I've finished, I'd just like to say
Don't change, 'cause you're perfect in this way!

by Hayley, 11

I don't know what I was thinking

I don't know what I was thinking
I knew it was dangerous from the beginning
It could never be, who am I kidding?
But I ain't going to be sad
Those would be tears well wasted
Actually I'm glad
'Cause now I can just face it
What a pity for you, yeah, such a shame
Take a look at me now, drenched in gold and fame

by Angel, 18

What About Me

Can you honestly dream about me?
Do you honestly sing about me?
Is there anything about me
That catches your vision?
Do you wonder about me
In the middle of the night?
Is there anything about me
You find out by sight?
Where do you daydream about me?
Can you lie to anyone about me
And say your love for me is true?
Do you ever wonder about me?
Honestly, do you?
Because everything of me is you.

by Lyiah, 13

You Did This To Me

Sing me a love song
Then cry all my tears
You did me a horrible favor
And brought back all my fears
You brutally destroyed me
And ripped out my heart
What happened to cupid
And all the love darts?
You must have hated me strongly
And wished us apart
For we are no longer together
And now I have no heart
You stole it from me
And I'll never get it back
Because of you, it's now a heart that I lack.

by Janaee, 13

I Miss the Days That the World Smiled For Me

I miss the days that the world smiled for me.
I miss the days where every day was the sweetest mystery.
I miss the days where life was like my favorite books.
I miss the days where falling in love was as easy as 1, 2, 3.
I miss the days everyone saw me.
I miss the days where I could just breathe.
I miss the days where people stood beside me.
I miss the days where people got to know me.
I miss the smile that replaced the tears.
I miss standing there without having to hide from my deepest fears.
I miss the days where it all wasn't so complicated.
I miss the days where I was liked.
I miss the days where I had someone to talk to.
I miss the days where I had the mind of a child.
I miss the days where they told me it would be alright, and I believed them.
But now I can't see them, and they don't see me.
It's only me leaning against the wall, bracing myself for the tears that will soon fall.
And even though they promise me that things will be alright, I can't believe them.
I'm so alone as I fall into this eternal darkness with no one to catch me, with no one to grab my hand and fall with me.
All I wanted was a friend, but sadly that all has come to an end.

by Misa, 15

You Are the Star in the Sky

You are the star in the sky
You are the key to my heart
You make me realize that there is someone out there
That loves me as much as you do

by Darion, 13

Beaches

Beaches
Like a strand of gold along the coast
I sink my toes into the sand
Waves lap at my feet
Palm trees tower over me as they sway with the breeze
The sun is setting and reminds me of a big glob of butter
Slowly melting down the sky
Until it will be swallowed by the ocean and gone for the day
It's beautiful

by Emily, 12

You've Broken the Walls Around My Heart

You've broken the walls around my heart
Now I don't find myself in doubt
You are the love that I've been searching for
You are the one who pushes me too far
I will never know if you love me
But I know I love you
I only wish you could say it, too
Someday I hope you do
I know I want to spend the rest of my life with only you

by Amanda, 28

Oh Brother

I like you.
I think of you all the time and you can catch me glancing your way.
I think of sweet conversations that I'd never have the guts to say.

I like you.
You're cute and funny, and I wanna get to know more about you if only you'd let me in.
But I already have something and I'm afriad what happens if I don't win.
I think about the what-if's the could-be's and why?
But when I think of whom I like it's never just that one guy.
I used to like him more than I liked any other,
But now I like you; it all makes me say, "Oh Brother!"
You confuse me, though, the way you go about your ways
You tell me to call you and meet you at a certain place.
I even remembered when you kissed me so sweetly last year, but then you liked her, and I had to dissapear.

I like you.
And I bet I always will.
But me and you are friends, and I wanna stay friends still.
Last year was awkward, last year was rough.
DO YOU LIKE ME, TOO? COME ON, I'VE HAD ENOUGH!

by Angel, 18

Sights No Eye Should Ever See

Sights no eye should ever see
Sounds no ear should ever hear.
A loss no mother should have to feel
Tears no father should have to bravely conceal.
Emptiness no lover should have to face
A life allowed to go to waste.
A voice a daughter will never know
A role model a son would long to out grow.

Whyfor, you ask, are such lives sold?
Futures stolen from brave and bold,
Sent to sands across the sea,
To lands they know they shouldn't be.
To return like gifts in a box,
Wrapped in flags. Silence. No-one talks.
Only the melancholy sound of the lone brass horn,
Strikes the ears of the numbers, who for minutes mourn.

While far away squabble the cowards' band,
About fiddled numbers from the poor man's hand.
These theives and shysters in suits and ties,
From behind their desks the devilry flies.
A righteous mask hides their yellow skin,
Their eyes of green and sharp toothed grins,
Concealing a poisoned fork shaped tongue
Hissing deceitful myths of how a war can be won.

'A war on terror!' to the innocent they plead,
But in enlightened minds, a doubt does seed,
Knowing at the heart of all this death and ravaged life,
Must be a greed for gold, a power strife.
And alas, beneath the battlefield of blood and guns,
The truth does out, a black river runs.

As the news arrives, cold another three bodies lay,
By giving a gun the guilty did slay,
While they concentrate on tolling the dead,
The names they've killed float through their head.

Just another number, three drops in a fountain,
When will this end? One, nine, nine and counting.

by YOU KNOW WHO, 11

They Married Fifty-Four Years Ago

They married fifty-four years ago.

All this time, and they are still together,
Until she passed away a few months ago, very peacefully.

He is finally starting to see another lady,
Who he met before they were married.

He starts to question his niece one day,
Whether or not he should leave his wedding band on.

He has worn it for all of the fifty-four years,
Never once taking it off.

His niece tells him to do whatever his heart says.

As he's sitting at the kitchen table, rolling the ring between his fingers,
It finally gives up.

It cracks in half, and falls to the table,
Where he and his niece can see the fine lines,
Criss-crossed like a spider's web.

The cracks never giving in until now,
Fifty-four years later.

by Kathryn, 14

Tangled

Tangled
All up inside
I can feel her
The real me
Fighting for life
She's hidden
Not of her own will
She just has to climb
One more hill
The only obstacle
Is her
When will she stop
Being in her own way?

by Ana, 16

I'm Swimming In A Lake

I'm swimming in a lake
And I'm cooled off
I'm baking a cake
And I'm no longer hungry
I'm using a rake
And the leaves are cleaned up
But is it all fake?

Is the life I lead useless?
Meaningless, like a dream?
Does it all have no effect?
Does it not change a thing?

Am I here for a reason?
I'd really like to know
Should I follow your suggestion?
Will it matter anyhow?

Is the point of life just for the sake of living?
Or is there a point I can't understand?
Will someone explain my purpose?
Or am I just like sea or land?

I'm tired of being useless
One in a million, all the same
I'm sick of feeling pointless
I will no longer play this game

by Mariah, 12

Because Of You

Because of you :
i don't sing a love song
i scream a love song
Because of you :
i don't cry a puddle i cry a stream
Because of you :
my dreams aren't real
Because of you :
i won't know how love feels
Because of you :
i don't run to your embrace
instead i cry when i see your face
Because of you :
i hate you so
Because of you :
our love shall never grow
Because of you :
i'm a broken-hearted girl
Because of you :
i have no world

by Janaee, 13

One Magical Night

One magical night
The football field ahead
I saw your face
A long night I dread
But at the end you tell me
Something very true
You told me that you liked me
And then you went back to your hometown
And I went back to mine
Wait 'til next year's Homecoming
I tell you something of mine

by Zora, 13

I Sit Alone In My Bed Wondering

I sit alone in my bed wondering
Wondering why I'm alive, why I wanna die
Wondering why you hurt me so bad, why I'm so sad
Why would you want to see my tears
This is why I have so many fears
You were the only one out there for me
And now there is no one, why would you want to see me hurt like this
And why wouldn't you want to see me fly.
Wondering all the damn time

by Shirrice, 14

My Familiar Friend

As I enter the halls
Of what could have been
The memory of your unknown face
Lingers with mystery

I stare at
Blank pictures of us
And imagine
Your unsmiling face

I listen for
Your unspoken voice of wisdom
For time put you through
More than most

I continue down the hall
Of what seems to be
Full of broken dreams

You have no bitterness
Left in your veins
But I keep a heart
Full of pain

I should be thankful
For every morning's light
Though that's another sunrise
You'll never see

You are so strong
Yet so frail
A wise soul
Too old for this life
I know all about you
Yet nothing at all

I think of you as my best friend
Though time never let us meet
So you are my secret angel
My familiar friend

by Christina, 17

The Winter Beach

The taste of salt rolled off my tongue and I felt the feeling of cold water wrapping around me. The sun set in its dull orange shade as the smell of night rolled in. It was my queue to leave. Waves calmed down to their gentle rhythm, twining with the echo of cries from retreating dolphins. Sand, wet and cold, tangled around my toes. The cold winter air roared past my ears. Small waves formed when I started to paddle, pulling water from under my hands. The shore brushed against my stomach, and it was time to leave the winter beach.

by Jenna, 13

Excuses, Excuses

"What does 'incredulous' mean again?"
"How do you spell 'acquiesce' again?"
"What's the homework again?"
"Run that by me again?"

Excuses, excuses.
That's how I see them.

Excuses, excuses.
Could it be
That you're making up excuses
To talk... to me?

You tap my shoulder.
I swivel around
And face you.
Our eyes lock,
And heat crawls up my back.

For a second I think
You're going to say... that you...
"What's the assignment?"
Oh. That. And I reply,
Half-disappointed,
Half-relieved.
I turn back around to do my work,
You turn back around to do your work.
And it's over.

Or is it?

When I look up in your direction,
And you look up in my direction,
You blurt out, "So how'd you do on the test?"
And I sigh and reply, trying to be ominous,
"I guess I did well."
And you: "Oh." Pause. "I guess I did good, too."
And I turn back around,
And you turn back around.
And it's over.

Or is it?

I'm wondering,
Are you really interested in my grades?
Because we compete?
Or are you just interested...
In...me?

Excuses, excuses.
I hate them.

But I guess it's better that way.
At least you're talking to me,
Trying to start a conversation.
Because me?
I don't really talk to you at all.

Excuses, excuses.

by Camicuti97, 12

I Love You With A Passion

I love you with a passion
I love you everyday
Nothing you can ever do
Will take my love away
I've known you all my life
We met when we were young
It was love at first sight
A song to be sung
You still don't know I love you
That's the problem right here
Do I tell you? Or will you disappear?

by Laura, 13

Most People Underestimate a Broken Heart

Most people underestimate a broken heart when it turns ripe. It explodes and tears you down when you hurt the most. Mine will always be broken because they broke it. I will be glad when they're finished with it because I want it, need it back.

by Kelly

The Air Brushes My Cheek

The air brushes my cheek
I feel the wind
It is fall

by Sam, 12

Nature

NATURE, it swirls at our feet you walk its back you clean earth up because she's just that way. you climb its nose oh how she snows. her hair falls out it tickles your face making the ground a place of color!

by Curlyhue, 11