I lay in the grass with you,
looking at the endless night sky.
Millions of stars and one moon,
staring down at us.
You point up and say
“A shooting star! Make a wish”
You close your eyes tightly,
and make one.
I think and think,
then finally I get an idea.
“I wish this moment would last forever.”
I think to myself.
I look at you,
and I know.
We had wished the same thing.

This poem was written/submitted by Madye.

I need a pencil to sketch
my lone boundary,
a lace to hide
the monster in ‘this case’
a mirror to reflect
a perfect image
from two broken lines
of a faded being.

I need glasses to focus
my sinful path
and let I see the ditches
in this foiled jungle,
let I draw a figure
out from a colored blue
and shade it some grays.

I need a threshold to the gate
to enter me into scanned
systems on the lonely road
and pass as I would pass,
out my fray-greyed day.

I need you.

This poem was written/submitted by Salamu Bakili.

Meeting you saved my life
Even though I’m now your wife
When you saw me shed those tears
You knew it was from fear
The fear of having to look back
Having courage is where I slack
You helped me get through my past
I’m so happy we did last
We both went through tough times
But at our wedding I heard the chimes
You help me up when I was down
You helped me forget that awful day when I was in town,
All I want to say is I’m glad I met you
And that I’m so madly in love with you!

This poem was written/submitted by cheese94.

This lost love is killing me inside
Within this lost life, I have nowhere to hide
It’s over now I need to accept it
But I cant help but feel like sh*t
I have drank in the city streets and yet
I keep going back to the place we met
The memories are flooding back to me
But all my pain I know you cannot see
Or do you even care how I tried to take my life
You may not know it but I wanted you to be my wife
As I lay there with blood gushing from each wrist
I think about you and how I never missed
Every chance to make you smile
Cheer you up when you were sad once in a while
The days I spent holding you in my arms
Making sure you never came to harm
All I wanted to do was make you feel loved
Every feeling you had I never shoved
Away from our relationship and time together
I wanted us to last forever
But I know now that will never come to be
All you can do is say you loved me
My heart is now snapped in two
Because of this lost love of me and you…

This poem was written/submitted by Stuart S.

Its how you twinkle in the light
that’s what makes me feel so bright
every time I see you smile
it will make me think a while
Your eyes are bright and your smiles divine
if you were here,you’d be all mine
its raining and pouring
I feel us both exploring
but i am here and you are there
the love between, is very rare
If i had one day, to forget the rest
it would only feel right if i made it the best
so come have fun, just you and I
We’ll fly kites upon the sky
its done and over the day has ended
as though i feel that someone pretended
its not you, and isn’t I
it my imagination wanting to fly
so when push comes to shove
no one comes between our love

This poem was written/submitted by travisty.

I can’t stay without you, I need you so much.
Never one second without you, I’m longing for your touch.
Just one look at you, it’s the best thing I can get.
A second gaze at you, I feel it but yet,
Your indifference is stabbing me slowly, really slow.
I can’t get it, did you really have to teat me so?
You will always live buried in my head,
And never will my love for you be shed
Away. You will always be near,
Because near you my heart will never fear
The cold nights at home, alone.
The sense of life is gone.

This poem was written/submitted by Mervet Ziane.

A long time ago, I came towards you.
A long time ago, you just backed away.
From there on, my feeling is forever new,
Unfading… For eternity it will stay.

One gaze at you, music surrounds me.
One gaze at you, I ask no more.
For once, stay near and let it be,
By suffering, my heart will close its door.

There you are, sweetest of sweets.
There you are, mysterious as the sea.
You are the reason my heart beats,
You are the one, with a stressed ‘the’.

A long time ago, I came towards you.
A long time ago, you just backed away.
From there on, what should I do,
To make my life face a better day?

This poem was written/submitted by Mervet Ziane.