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Left Behind: A Poem About Unrequited Love

This is about the feelings of someone who is still in love with their ex, despite the fact that their partner has moved on and found someone else. The feelings are of unrequited love and heartbreak,

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Thanks so much for this poem! This is a repeatedly tantalizing experience so frequently occurring to lovers in the world; you love someone who usually loves someone else and pays not much...

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You Love Her

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Published by Family Friend Poems May 2015 with permission of the Author.

I love you, but you love her.
I still remember what we were.
I still cherish what we used to be.
I still remember when you loved me.

I need you, but you need her.
She's the one you prefer.
She's the one you hold dear.
She's the one I wish would disappear.

I want you, but you want her.
Can't believe you're with another.
Can't believe we are through.
Can't believe you've found someone new.

Now that all is said,
Now that all is done,
You're with her instead.
Good for her, she's won.

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  • Mohammad Ali Pirooz by Mohammad Ali Pirooz
  • 6 years ago

Thanks so much for this poem! This is a repeatedly tantalizing experience so frequently occurring to lovers in the world; you love someone who usually loves someone else and pays not much attention to your constantly heartfelt efforts to gladden him or her; however, a lovelorn lover differs well from one who's loved by all: detached and coy is she, beseeching boy is he to always bawl ...

  • ASHOK K. PACHAURI by ASHOK K. PACHAURI, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 6 years ago

The same thing happened to me.

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