CRUSHED BY MY CRUSH

CRUSHED BY MY CRUSH

A small collection of poems about loving too quietly, hoping too deeply, and breaking too softly.

I. Loving Someone Who Didn't Love You Back

A poem about pouring your heart into someone who only saw you as ordinary.
About staying up late rereading messages that meant more to you than to them.
It explores the loneliness of loving loudly in silence.

II. The Heart That Fluttered First

A poem about the person who made your pulse race,
only to become the reason it hurt.
The same smile that gave you butterflies
became the reason you learned how to swallow tears.

III. Romantic Disappointment

Not betrayal.
Not cruelty.
Just the quiet realization that the story you imagined
was never the story they were writing.

IV. One-Sided

A confession written in invisible ink.
About conversations where you cared more.
Where you noticed everything,
and they noticed nothing.

V. Falling Too Hard

The soft tragedy of loving deeply without safety.
Of building castles in the air
with someone who never planned to stay.

VI. Expectation vs Reality

In your head, it was a love story.
In real life, it was small talk and mixed signals.
This poem contrasts the dream and the truth.

VII. When Hope Turns Quiet

The final piece.
About innocent hope slowly dimming.
Not with drama,
but with acceptance.

-Betty Liss