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Sometimes Love Hurts
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Sometimes Love Hurts
Poetry
By B.L. Johns
Sometimes Love Hurts
By B.L. Johns
Copyright 2016 B.L. Johns
“Envy Lust Dishonesty Desire Adulterous Love.
All the sins of our dreams”
A heart was lost
held captive to dreams
full of sweetness.
woke with a smile
for days, weeks, months
a year and more.
to a day here or there,
to nothing as before.
a heart once sated simply
by smooth tones
laced with sensuous visions
transformed into longing
for a renewed friendship,
fueled now with joy and love.
distance created an awkward quiet
sense of used. yet,
we are missed
this known by He
who allowed our time.
time to hurt
until love is renewed again.
a heart knows
love cannot transfer
Nor erase.
mature infinite love
will not submit to complication.
this true love
is full of hope
enough to have overwhelmed
one feeble soul.
Love is often forsaken
by immature hearts.
we know,
pure love overflows from ours.
There is silence,
There is lost time
with much space between.
nevertheless,
a heart is lost no more.
for she is safe now,
there,
deep within yours
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Thoughts of you without me
force overflowing sorrow filled tears
soaking my warm skin in cold misery
Worthless visions chased by pain
as a tear rolls down my chest
where you once rest your head
to listen to a strong loving heart.
Tears rest there now
on an emptied somber space
encasing weak flutters of reality.
fair enough to remind me
your head may never rest
over this heart again.
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Reality
Hope smothered by frustration
Weak hearts burdened by distance
Desire a faint mist
Love has no room to grow
Silence replaced laughter
Doubt dictates our time.
You
Run farther than You are
where the earth bends round
the ocean until
You are carried out into
darkness where You can no longer
see all that You left here.
Look forward never back
your stare releases painful
memories best known as
forgotten.
In time your travel round
may bring you close behind.
But you will never
catch me or be by my side
You will never see me look back
at the once perfect face
You wear so well.
Disgusting
Smells of
Death
of love
of belief,
Desire
and Commitment.
Welcome
To a living grave
where boredom filled days
waters strong roots of
Resentment.
Liars
eat, drink sleep
as if all ends well
All ends well
For those who end all.
Liars chose to live
A lie
with no choice
Trapped
chained
To nothing more than debt
FORGIVE AND FORGET
Tell that man that I still live
For love, life, happiness in our commitment
In our dream.
The dream that died and was revived by
Not us. But by our Father who must
Intend on a bounteous fate.
Although sometimes we cannot see
For it is transparent until we release our fears
And believe that mistakes are painful reminders
To give ear to each other and believe in the dream
We spoke of years before
Restless
Still awake
In sane
Patiently waiting for reward
Strife interferes
Peace is beyond
No More
Brown eyes smiling
Surprise gifts
Flowers
Chocolate
Desire
Memories bottled in my mind
Reflecting on faded love
Is it time
Purpose
Fulfillment for Expressions
or
lust for affection from unseen ears
Attention from above
Or of those who are nearest
A voice within
Guides to the pen, paper or grey keys.
Where we write and lay
Confessions, dreams, disappointments
Grief
I heard my sister, weeping.
In my mind
I thought I was dreaming
I woke and went to my mother’s side
For a moment I am certain she was whole
Then she pinched a smile
And winked and kissed me
With her last breath
She whispered love
My heart would not release her.
I needed more time.
But that day she took her last breath
that day she said goodbye
Looking for answers
To prayers
Wanting inspiration
In life
Needing love
Forever
Fighting adversity
With vigor
Believing in God
His grace
Knowing he died
But not in vain.
Life Must Go On
I woke wearing the fake smile
Engraved from days past.
An eerie silence revealed
my horrid dream now fulfilled.
The smile swiftly coiled into
a massive fist of fire that pounded
through my chest and shattered my soul.
I sat up and recognized pieces of
Honesty, trust, intimacy, happiness and love
scattered all around me.
My stomach remained emptied for days
I longed for nourishment.
Somehow I had one more tear left
which began to slither from the slant of my eye.
I tried to wipe the grief away
but my hand was heavy.
I looked down and noticed I was holding on to responsibility.
Then I felt a calm whisper of my prayer from hours before.
Shortly thereafter my carefree child called for me
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I grabbed happiness with
my empty hand and together with responsibility in the other
I knew I must learn to deal with my life after infidelity
Without life love weakens
After heartbreak faith will mend your soul
Stop pretending and make it what you want
Today you can shine
Every day begins
Do your heart a favor
Relive love
Thoughts
We have a choice to love those who
Give nothing in return.
What is an object without an open vessel for you?
to share your love with me?
No love from one who you share too much
With.
And it does not pay to have such a relationship
We lose ourselves in others
Others are lost in themselves.
They do not see all you may see in you
You can take your love and share it with those
Who admire and respect love?
You chose to have it shared with those who treasure
Self-gratification
No one can blame you. You can blame you.
You have accepted this life
you have created for you.
Leave Me, Leave You
You smile
Talk and walk with me
You share your disappointments
I comfort you.
Daily kisses when you go and come
Are meaning less and less
They have no value when shared
With the one who does not know the
Man that I have come to accept and
Long for relief from.
I needed the man to be one of self-merit
With honor and unending commitment to
This union that has been
Disregarded and tossed into blunder
A mimic of your parent
Me, a replication of mine
Now what would she do?
Only once would she have proceeded
On the second one she would surely release you.
This is our plight.
Or is this mine simply?
You
Yes. You know it is you
One who asks God for pardon
Frequently not truly for His favor
Your motive is fueled with selfishness
Your actions are a cheap description of your character
Deep inside lies guilt that stains your soul
Running from eternity makes no sense to God
Continue to play a life
Dodge reality, fake love
Your hope, to gratify only you
You make no sense, fear God.
Better concern yourself with God
Or guilt will consume you. Yes. You.
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Pick a day
chose a moment
Place a bet
see where
Your heart lies
Many days spent
Living mysteriously
avoiding truth
wishing then wanting more
When is the silence
too much to bare
Today seems to be the day
to challenge reality
Tomorrow brings the inevitable
There is no turning back and
No wonder of how this will end,
Just ending is enough.
Silence,
a great pleasure
When need resolves
Today is pointless
leave
Take the years
with you
Moments
wasted
On an immature mind
dissipated by a lethal
Fluid meant to calm a
Tormented piece of God's
Creation.
Leave,
Connect with another
Listen. to learn
Keep happy
Try to keep happy
Give meaning
To a life you
No longer have
Find wisdom
As I will
Ever Ending Love
There is no reason for this
Playing house, me and you.
Living an inconsistent reality
drains enthusiasm where there is no desire
Which one of us will rise above our
fake incomplete pathetic excuses
for the love we claimed.
We THINK we have given trust, love and commitment.
As time goes by our yearning has withered
We can release our turmoil by
Reversing the bond we made many years past
Our lives are more of me, then you separately
No point to a union.
Now we are sole survivors
Coping
Yet filled with resentment
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Don’t need to be with u
Wish u could see it too
Not gonna tell a lie
U n me r wasted time
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Smothered by affection
Constant kisses Full of desire
A sure thing snuffed away by life’s sorrows
became too much promise
Impossible to believe in
forced a burdened heart into stone
With no one to love outside its of own.
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Let’s see
Our reality
So faint
Long ago
Today
You lie
Fake
Steal hearts
As pleasure
We are
Even now
Exit quickly
Bleeding hearts
Cover wounds
With love
Over it
When you walk away without turning back
relief comes too quickly.
Happiness is silence
lying next to a spare pillow
Not missing comfort from our decades
My soul found permanent peace
when you threw out the symbol of our vows
once costly, more than we could afford
is an insignificant piece of debris?
God whispered...
Try less regret
Accept the painful experience
of a facade of a family
Help me move on from here God
Help me stand with You
Swollen
Bruised
Red then blue
Black mixed in yellow
Burning heat
turns tears into
mist of pain
too thick to breathe
Held inside
No relief
love
beaten
To dust.
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U never wanted me
U didn’t need me
U didn’t hear me
U barely called me
U rarely saw me
U laid with me
U held me
U Kissed me
U smiled at me
U laughed with me
U slept on me
U caressed
all of me
U wrote to me
U said u loved me
U played me
U left me
U lost me
U didn't deserve me
U have replaced me
U didn’t respect me
U won't own me
U won't destroy me
U will yearn for me
U will cry for me
U will see me laugh
At U
Hearts retain lies
Robbed of strong mind
belief in trust
in love.
Replaced with lust
Hope for reality
cannot change ours
Past times reveal
jealousy is fate
Proven by consistent sins
blamed on nature.
Untainted hearts are fearless.
You have found a scathed one.
Remember
Reliving a past
still drawn to you
Waited patiently for
a brave moment called
Reaching Out
Your swift response
reads happiness all over.
A connection sparks
as a match would ignite
No childish games
Love blooms pure and new
in old hearts desiring affection
No secrets
only dreams called rendezvous
Lost in us
Me more than you
“True love fails but never dies.”