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How Can I Explain My Yearning to Be Loved?
A poem about romantic love and loneliness
I am loved by those around me
it would be deceiving for me to say i’m showered in it
because I am bathed in love
dunked down and forced to stay under
I’m drowned by it
but it’s not the type of love I am craving for
some might call me ungrateful and undeserving
but, I crave the romantic type of love
the sweet and depraved type
I want the soft touches and the lingering glances
the secret smiles as our eyes soften and our gaze meets
I want to revel in his burning touch as he grips my hand and cups my cheek
I want, no need to tell him all my secrets, my passions, my wants and needs
I yearn to be his choice
I am unwillingly bathed in love by those around me
but I want to drown in the pools of his eyes
I desire to be doused by the scorching heat of his words because of the burn it leaves
how can I miss someone I have never met?
Feel the loss for someone who doesn’t exist
my heart is a stubborn fool and has already decided what it wants, no it needs.
love…
