The Winning Entry
Submitted by Marcopolo8503

Can You, Can I?

I'm whispering,
can you hear me?
I'm talking,
do you understand me?
I'm yelling,
do you fear me?
I'm screaming,
do you hate me?

I'm standing,
do you stand beside me?
I'm walking,
do you walk with me?
I'm jogging,
do you stop and forget about me?
I'm running,
do you try to catch up to me?

Your whispering,
I will always hear you.
Your talking,
I understand every word you say.
Your yelling,
I don't fear you.
Your screaming,
I could never hate you.

Your standing,
If you look I am right there beside you.
Your walking,
If you look I'm walking with you.
Your jogging,
I'll never stop and forget about you.
Your running,
I wil try everyday with everything I have to catch up to you.

I look over to see you staring at me smiling.
And I smile back.
The warmth in my heart, just swells.
The compliments you give me are so amazing.
The hugs that lasted forever.. a wonderful feeling throughout my whole body.
Love.. someone acutally caring for me.
One day you look at me and say "I love you."
I smile.
This goes on for three weeks.
People see us.
They try to hook us up.
We flirt.. very heavily I may add.
You hug me... I hug you.
The smiles,the laughs,the hugs, the "love."
Then suddenly.. "I don't like her more then a friend."
So all this was just in fun.
Now I sit here.
As my heart rips in two.. I can feel all the happiness fade.
You held me so tightly how can u not love me?
How can you not?
I feel for you and you didn't catch me.
Now I sit here and the tears swell up in my eyes.. why did I even try?

Submitted by Munashii

The gears of my heart have stopped
It's gentle tic-toc once had meaning.

Set to coincide with you
It was always reliable...forever dependable.

As time ticked by, my love only grew
My heart sounded for you every hour of the day

But such a fragile device must be cared for
It should not be toyed with, lest it break.

You were careless...you took it for granted
You let it slip from your grasp.

Now it rests in the darkest corner of my being
Lonely, cracked, and covered in dust.

Submitted by Tigger32188

This man who I love
This man who I love
Was the one who showed me everything I know
He showed me how to love
He showed me how to care

This man who I love
Knew just what to say to a girl like me
He?d say I was his world
He?d say I was his girl

This man who I love
Would express his love with tiny things
A candy or two
Or just ride in the car

This man who I love
Was the one who gave me all that I have
From my head
To my toes

This man who I love
Was the one who taught me the important things in life
He taught me how to ride a bike
He taught me how to fly a kite

This man who I love
Was they only one who could make me smile
With a tickle or two
Or with an I love you

This man who I love
Was here back then, but not right now
He is up in heaven
Watching over me

This man who I love
Is the only man who has ever known
All my secrets
And all my dreams

This man who I love
Was the man who gave me
Life
And my individuality

Submitted by Sexicheergurl01

Me and Charlie boy used to go out walkin
sittin in the woods behind my house
when being lovers meant a stolen kiss
and holding hands with nobody else around.

Charlie said he wanted to get married
But we were only 10 so we'd have to wait
He said we'd never let our love run dry
Like so many do these days.

So we treat our love like a firefly
Like it only gets shine for a little while
Catch it in a mason jar with holes in the top
and run like hell to show it off
oh promises were made when we'd go walking
but thats just me and Charlie talkin.

Charlie always said he'd like to leave here
So he turned 18 and he left our sleepy town
letters came and went and i kept waiting.
for Charlie to come back and bring the life he'd found.
Funny how time and distance change you
The road you take don't always lead you home
You can start a love with good intentions
and then you look up and its gone.

Even now i sometimes think of Charlie
And how we thought we knew it all back then.
Now id give anything to feel
love from a child's heart again

Submitted by JewelWings

When Angels Appear

Angels will always have one role,
when they go searching for a goal,
that someone could never tear you apart,
and hopefully they won't play with your heart,
so be prepared because,
Angels will come and Angels will go,
but only my father's will really glow,
he will always continue to be a part,
of my tender ever loving heart,
so I will really grow gracefully old,
when Angels appear in search of my soul.

Submitted by LoViNyOuLoViNmE

Love Lost

Words left unspoken, lost somewhere in time
Visions of yesterday remain in my mind
Silently I cry, for my thoughts I must hide
years gone by, feelings denied
Why must love end with such pain and sorrow
For the love that we shared was filled
with hope and dreams of tomorrow
How can we destroy the lives that we touch
and continue to say, that "I love you so much?
Could it be that with love
we create our "Hell"
breaking the hearts of those that we tell
For the love you are given, a price you must pay
you will be broken, your love thrown away

Submitted by Midge217

Collection of Odes to Loves I Never Had

Part One, Jason
I always wished I knew you better.
I'll admit it; I was scared
When you first told me so much
And regret that I backed off.
We filtered in and out,
And I assume we were both too preoccupied
To really notice any feelings
Every time I think of you,
I think of bunnies
And Wal-Mart.
Boys with dark hair
That grow to be tall
With no evidence of siblings
And a very distinctive voice.

Part Two, Eric
I think about you so often,
Yet I hardly realize how little
You really know me.
Of course, I know your car
And your identical and older brothe.
I know where you live
And where you work.
I know what you like to eat,
When you eat it,
Where you eat it.
I know a few of your hobibes
And how close you are to your family.
I know who your
Teacher was in fourth grade
And what class you had fourth block.
I know what kind of music you like
And what you do on weekends.
I know who your friends are.
(And who they are not.)
I know how much you like
Roller coasters and math.
But what do you know about me?
You know where I work
And where I don't shop.
You know my car
And the road I live on.
You know one of my hobbies
And none of my classes.
You maykonw about my sister
(Though those chances are slim)
You know what band I really like
And maybe what I watch.
You know how much I like
Roller coasters and hate math.
You may know of my friends
And what we like to do.
But maybe (oh happy day if this were true)
You saw me every time I saw you.
Will you ever know it was me
That left little Hallmarks
On your glass?
Did you ever knowingly try to make me smile?
Will you ever come back
And make something new something old?

Part Three, Steve
Oh, Steve,
The pulsing of my vein
Is the
Rhythm of our band.
I swear I spent
More time
With you
In my dreams
Than I did anywhere else.
Sure, there were our early mornings
That really made me care.
But it was our smaller band
That made me more aware.
Those mornings we spent together
Fade and then come back.
I preferred the writing
While you enjoyed the math.
Even though we both did fine
I spent each morning (for eighteen weeks)
Wishing I could make you mine.
Steve, when my heart comes to you,
It remembers.
But I forget.
You sent my heart a-pounding
When we debated Civil War
Or when I saw you peek around
Someone's locker door.
Someday, I would love to ride
In your cracker-jack-box car--
Drive out to nowhere,
Pull back the top
And gaze at the stars.
I wanted us to talk and talk
Or sneak off to take a walk.
But it never happened
And I managed to lose you inside myself.
I've set my thoughts upon the shelf
Where they're guarded by a little elf
That brings it all full circle.

Part Four, Mike
We worked together,
Laughed together.
What more could a girl ask for?
Your smile, oh-your smile!
Though vibrant then, now begins to fade.
And your eyese were like
The insides of a soft, warm brownie.
I can barely listen to that music now
Without your face invading my memories.
When I left you, you knew I would return.
But when I heard that you had gone,
I felt I had been betrayed.
I had looked forward to seeing you
And now my sister has you
In the same way I had.
But don't you fret,
This big, organized college girl
Will forever remember your name.

Submitted by ImUrQTPie28

Can't Do That

I can't do that to myself
I wish I could do it
I want to force myself
Not to still like you

I fooled myself once again
Just to get over you
Didn't work like before
And now I lost myself

I can't picture myself
With anyone else
I need to be with you
I can't picture myself
In another's arms
I'm so lost without you

Submitted by Cheer4life754

Somewere out there

its two aclock in the mornin tryin to find the picture
of you and me by the willow tree
too many memories
how you huged me how you kissed me never never will i feel that agian.
i looked out my window to find the reasons why all that was left was
the remedy of my tears behind. . .
the picture was riped teared apart from the night before when was
blined by that light the light i saw it was like i saw nothing before.
Then that day i sat there by your grave gave your everything of yours.
That train that train it drived me insian why why???
i couldnt tell you. . .it was somewere out there<|3.
The blood down my hands all over my shirt sure it didnt hurt on the
outside but in the inside.
Wipe my eyes dry my tears im wishing it was not real.
Hesitating to forget the train that hit me and him the smoke the dryed
up cole never never i think that day that story was told.
it wasnt told. .but somewere out there ill find you someday when the
misary has gone away.

Submitted by Punkprincess136

Shadows on the wall
People of old
Where distant memories
Shine on one last time
A grim reminder
But it's not the only one
There are one's everlasting
Which will never fade into the shadows
With every touch
Every moment
They are present
Haunting my vision
Bittersweet reminders of pain
Of hardships and torn hearts
But yet
A different light shines
Showing that sunny side over the rainbow
Of what was overcome
Of the survival
Which has shaped me to be
Who I am

Submitted by Rubenslover

Wishing with my dying breath
you had never left me.
Looking at all my family and friends
as they hold my hands tight.
There is no light,
only darkness surrounds me.
The birds have stopped chirping
and only thorns remain on the beautiful rose.
My mind is a cluttered mess of
memories of better days gone by.
Then I cry aloud,
'Seal me in the stone cold tomb,
and let me go in peace.'
Don't you see darling
you're killing me.
No I am not sick,
but sick at heart.
You're the only face
I want to see
when I go in for the night
and when I wake up every morning.
You were the most radiant light
in the entire universe
without you there is no warmth.
There is no guide,
for this was not the path
I was meant to follow.
I was meant to be with you.
My life
will be forever ugly and cold
without you to keep
my heart and bed
warm at night.
I will never be able to go on
until I find you and live
my life with you.
And darling,
when I die put a bright red rose
on the top of my coffin,
for even though I am gone,
my love for you will never die.

Submitted by Tigerchild

You saw me standing all alone watching the waves crash.
The sun was setting along the beach with butterflies in the sky.
I held my guitar in my hand playing beautiful music in the sand.
The wind was blowing all around me until you came and talked to me.
You whispered love notes in my ear that gave me pleasure and no fear.
I never thought I could feel this way about a guy I must say.
You were the only one who understood me and stood by my side.
But I know this will never last because it's just a memory from the past.

Submitted by XoLoVeLyOnEoX

Why is my mind caught in all sort of distorted thoughts?
Do I really hear voices and noises or am I going paranoid?
Tell me, am I really loosing it, damn! I feel like I got no choice.
i don't understand, how and why is my mind confusing me lately
Can it be? Maybe, just maybe ......, am I really going crazy?
every time i closed my eyes tight and i feel all cold inside
and then suddenly, God! I feel as if my soul has just died.
at that very moment i hear your voice whispering in my ears,
I quickly turn around, no ones there. Did you just disappear?
or were my eyes simply blinded by my own dark tears?
my constant, haunting dreams about you seem just so vivid,
your memory replays like a film in my thought as I relive it.
at times i find myself awakening in the middle of the night
grasping into darkness, hoping my eyes could see your sight
there's something about u that goes beyond explanation and reason
and no matter how hard i try to let go. it just keeps growing more within
without u, my ocean of emotions turns out to be just an empty sea
without your love by my side, i even questioned my very own sanity

Submitted by Prettyangleprin

When You Look

when you look in my eyes what do you see?
when you look deep in my soul what do you feel?
i see dreams and nightmares
i see hope and high expectations
i feel love anger and peace
when you look at me do you really see me?
can you look past my faults and see the good?
without love and compassion whare would we be?
without love there is no future