Poem Reflecting On Missed Opportunities

"Words Unsaid" is a poem that expresses a heart full of regrets with the feelings it hid for a long time. It's a poem about words unspoken and feelings that were never shown. In love, one should gamble everything - even pride. However, there are times in our lives that realization comes when all the chances were gone. And you can do nothing but to feel how your whole soul is being torn up.

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When I read the poems published here, my raw wound of rejected love was prodded to pain, again. I met a man in a Facebook group. I was attracted to him as if there was no other man in the...

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Words Unsaid

Published by Family Friend Poems August 2014 with permission of the Author.

Regretting the moments I took for granted,
Moments when I was eaten by pride and hatred.
What if I had told you what I feel?
Would it change my life's wheel?

I was so afraid to fall in love deeply,
For mending a broken heart will never be easy.
I have been rotting in that hell before,
And I don't want to be there anymore.

But why is my heart crying in pain?
Why do I feel that my life's turning so plain?
Should I have told you that I love you?
Should I have showed you that it's true?

They say some words are better left unsaid,
Emotions should be kept till they fade.
No, scratch all the cowardice and negativity,
Because saying what you feel is the real bravery.

So what if you won't love me back?
At least there will be no what ifs in my mind.
But it's too late for me to realize this fact,
'Cause now you're gone and you'll never be mine.

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by Sharmila Mitra
1 year ago

When I read the poems published here, my raw wound of rejected love was prodded to pain, again. I met a man in a Facebook group. I was attracted to him as if there was no other man in the world for me. He was going through his third divorce, which I did not know then. I understood that it was his only divorce, and I felt a strange pull toward him. I never said anything for about three years, but he suddenly came to a private chat room, saying that I was his muse, both he and I are poets, though we live in different countries, very distant from one another.

To cut to the point, after saying that he wanted to marry me, and almost forcing me to commit my feelings, he informed me first that he wanted to repair his relationship with the third ex wife. I was devastated. I think I broke down in a disgusting manner. His efforts failed, and within a month of it, he let me know that he had moved in with a female colleague, because he and she were in love. Nothing more...a grief until I die...

by Althea Madrigal
8 years ago

I can relate. I also loved a man for a long time but even until now, he doesn't know. Maybe I was also scared of rejection but it is all in the past now. I can feel the emotions of the author, as if carrying something very heavy deep within.