Poem2024-07-25T09:32:52+00:00

Thoughts

By: Heather Renee Cullins

Have you ever noticed
the worst way to miss someone
is when they are right beside you
and yet you can never have them?
When the moment you can't feel them
under your fingertips
you miss them?

Have you ever wondered which hurts most,
saying something and wishing you had not,
or saying nothing and wishing you had?
I guess the most important things
are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of
because words diminish them,
words shrink things that seem timeless
more than living size,
when they are brought out.
Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them.
If you do, they might break your heart
but if you don't, you might break thiers.

Have you ever decided
not to become a couple
because you were to afraid
of what you already had with that person?
Your heart decides who it likes
and who it doesn't.
You can't tell your heart what to do.
It does it on its own,
when you suspect it
or even when you don't want it to.

Have you ever wanted to love someone
with everything you had,
but that other person
was too afraid to let you?
Too many of us stay walled
because we are too afraid to care too much...
For the fear that the other person
does not care as much
or talk at all.

Have you ever loved someone
and they had no idea whatsoever?
Or fell for your best friend
in the entire world,
and then sat around
and watched him/her fall for someone else?

Have you ever denied feelings for someone
because your fear of rejection
was too hard to handle?
We'll tell lies when we are afraid,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie...
the thing we fear grows stronger.
Life is all about risks
and it requires you to jump.
Don't be a person who has to look back
and wonder what they have,
or could have done.
NO ONE WAITS FOR EVER.