Tell Her

Some people are so deeply scarred.

How deep are the scars

that never were inflicted?

 

Only in a paranoid mind

where the knives were sharp

but you were blunted.

 

Affected by your misery

and isolation

only able to view

hurt.

 

Sometimes love

comes in honest

breaths.

 

Sometimes love

has to be said

in unhindered

tones.

 

But when only

hurt is heard

then

love ends.

 

09/05/19

Author's Note

Reviews

[Paul Bell]

Love and hate, it's a fine line.
I know love can turn to hate, but can hate be turned to love. Tough one.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed a fine line. I think anything can be turned into love given the right conditions. Cheers Paul.

[Anjeline]

Such a true reflection of how situations can even end love and that it's sometimes just sayings that it can never end. Really liked the concept and writing style of this one.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Anjeline

[Anjeline]

You're welcome :)

[barleygirl]

This is the most realistic description of how deeply scarred some people can be (including me). To be honest, when I saw the byline under the title, I was wondering if this would be judgmental, in terms of those who feel people should "get over it" . . . I was happy to find that you did not word this in a way that felt a bit judgmental . . . but still very honest about how we cannot fix other people. Either they can love or they can't, but it's not wise to go into it, thinking we can fix anybody. I love this honest look at how love needs a certain modicum of functionality! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[John Alexander McFadyen]

True we can rarely fix people Margie. Many thanks.

[@_av_poetry]

Ahh this is a tough one. Does love end? Do you give up on the person you love because they are blind to it?

Speaking from the POV of a person that was so destroyed by love that lost all hope and only saw enemies.
It is possible to learn to accept love again when all they've showed you in the past is that you don't deserve it. There is someone out there who will gently and patiently open your heart wide, remove the hurt, and put love in its place.

This one got me thinking. Good job!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed so AV. Thank you for such a considered review.

[@_av_poetry]

I'm Angela. :) Any time.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Angela.

[Wayfaring stranger]

I member when i was younger. How difficult was for me to express my love forward to another person. I think i got few times aniexity attack. Good thing is when you over come your fears. Even when you find out that person don't love you. You know for sure what is happening. That uncertainy can drive you mad. If you are too tense it's quiet hard to fall into real love. I like your poem is quiet light you don't put too much pressure on reader. Just to pur out one real experience in few words .

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You understand this as unrequited love Thomas. Thank you.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i know this...feeling love with reckless abandon, then being hurt, and becoming jaded...so much so that when a true love might come along...the belief in it is ephemeral...
we become adjusted to the pain and expect it to come...almost demand it to come.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed I know you understand this one Jacob. Thank you!