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Standoffish Type

Posted on May 30, 2024May 30, 2024 by Erin B.
I am afraid that
the standoffish type
is the only kind I love.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged afraid, love, standoffish, type

Neurotic

Posted on May 30, 2024May 30, 2024 by Erin B.
A love-starved woman
is likely neurotic.

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Posted in I Am Woman, Poems on HeartbreakTagged love, neurotic, starved, woman

Without Friendship

Posted on February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 by Erin B.
Love
without friendship
is cold
and most destructive.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on HeartbreakTagged cold, destructive, friendship, love, without

Dream Evaporated

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by Erin B.
You aren't here.
You're a dream evaporated.
A hurt winding
in the ruins of me.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged dream, evaporated, hurt, ruins, winding

Rock Bottom

Posted on September 7, 2023September 7, 2023 by Erin B.
Neglect is heartbreaking.

I lose control in pain -
at rock bottom.
I need love to be real.

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Posted in Poems on HeartbreakTagged bottom, control, heartbreaking, love, neglect, pain, real, rock

Gently Dying

Posted on July 24, 2023July 24, 2023 by Erin B.
She is safer
if she does not feel
too much;
she is gently dying
in the memory
of love.

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Posted in Poems on HeartbreakTagged dying, feel, gently, love, memory, safer

Love Me

Posted on May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 by Erin B.
I wish you would say
you love me.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on HeartbreakTagged love, me, say, wish

Lonely Bird

Posted on May 6, 2023May 6, 2023 by Erin B.
She was a lonely bird
full of unchanging melancholy.
She felt a terrible appeal
to detach from everything.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged appeal, bird, detach, everything, felt, lonely, melancholy, terrible, unchanging

Breathing or Dying

Posted on April 27, 2023April 27, 2023 by Erin B.
She was the sort
to fall for
people who ran away.
Love is
a variable so wild
it can feel like breathing
or dying.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on HeartbreakTagged breathing, dying, fall, love, people, ran, variable, wild

Self Pity

Posted on April 27, 2023April 27, 2023 by Erin B.
To be so wrapped up
in self,
is dangerous: self pity
and sense of woe
betray you.

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged betray, dangerous, self, sense, woe, wrapped

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