This is a poem I wrote a while back.
You could call this a love poem or a romantic one and thus I am dedicating it to anyone who ever had a boyfriend or girlfriend and never actually realized what they had and eventually lost. This is to the friends that lost contact and never saw each other again. To the young lovers just trying to make it in this world.
Only You
Writing poems in languages only you could understand
Singing songs in melodies only you could move to
That was my love for you
Only you
You made me learn that love was different for different people
And different towards different people
I looked at you with eyes in which only you could see reflected an image of yourself
That you would never imagine of yourself
The windows to my soul
You knocked on my door and learnt that the scars on my heart
Which I wore on my sleeve
Were a map of a hidden road that only you could see
The road less taken, you proved not so daunting
Only you could love me like you once loved me
First with fleeting glances
And then with gazes that left imprints far more vivid than any picture you could take
Our Polaroid’s still scattered across my bedroom floor
Only you could love me sprawled across my bed
Limbs spread out
Fingers reaching out to you
As natural as the reach of a tree to the sun
We grew together and like wall vines we intertwined
Only you could love me
When I could not let go
Only you could love me
When I couldn’t grow
Only you could love me
When my windows broke
Only you could love me
When the road closed
Only you could love me
With my limbs curled together
Only you could love me enough to know that while you loved me
In the way that only you could love me
That that love only you loved me with
The love with which only I could be loved with
That love could never be my only love
Only you could see a future
A future where I am happy
Without you
Not because of any pain you caused me
But because I needed to be set free
Only you could love
With so much strength
That you would let me spread my wings
And leave you as just a reflection behind me in my mirror
Only you could love me
Years later
Where the shadows of my figure still linger in the faint light of your bedroom
Where the echoes of my cries
My giggles
My screams
Where these echoes still bounce off the walls in the quiet night
Only you could love me
When I came back
Hopes and dreams
Shattered and mangled
Only you could love me
When I couldn’t talk
When I couldn’t walk
When I couldn’t love me
When I couldn’t love you
Only you could love me enough to hold me when I needed to be held
Even if the pleading words could never leave my mouth
So you see
I write this poem with so much happiness in my heart
But at the same time I’m sad
Because when I had your love
I couldnt recognise it for what it truly was
I couldn’t appreciate it
Like one should appreciate love a so strong
I was young
I was stupid
I was blind
And now we’ve gone our separate ways
I will never be able to tell how many lightyears away
But if your listening
I want you to know
That I love you
I always did
And it will always be you
Only you
My first love
My best friend