Love-Struck Poetry Collection

Waiting for you

2013 - A Sestina 

Tell me—why am I so in love with you?

When our shared life has been, it seems- only a moment.

I think that maybe it is just me, and I have lost the definition of love,

and maybe you have tied me up, leading me to nothing.

Sometimes I blame myself, irrationally trying to find an answer

or an explanation why I have used up all of this time.

And I think we need so much more time

to find each other, so I can find the real you.

And if I were to ask you for it, what would be your answer?

Because maybe if I could see something in your eyes, if just for a moment

then maybe all of this wouldn't be for nothing.

It would mean together, we could love.

Is it so strange to fall in love,

when there wasn't enough time?

To others, it could seem as nothing,

But to me, everything is when I look at you.

But there have been so many moments;

with years and years to ask for an answer.

But I have never gotten the courage to give or receive an answer.

I am a coward, hiding in the shadows with growing love.

But I have dreamed so many times of just moments

we could share, sewn together to make forever a part of time.

And in real life, I see glimpses of the same thing in you.

But we both have said nothing.

After all of this, I fear it will come to nothing.

I doubt that any of my questions will be answered.

And I think that maybe I've never known you.

I worry about my heart, and if it will break from the naivety of young love.

I could sit and think about my life and the wasted time

Or I can get up and extend the moment.

I could just speak to you, ask for a moment.

And I could pray that it will not be for nothing,

But that it will be a blessed time,

where maybe God can finally answer.

So that I can step away from the dark and into the lightness of love,

and fall straight into you.

I fear I will always want you, with every moment I live.

But sometimes that is just what love is, it can be both nothing and everything.

I can't wait forever for an answer, but I do believe time will bring us together, somehow.