Heartbreak Poems

Heartbreak Poems

Healing Poems for Heartbreak

When your heart is broken it is the saddest thing in the world. All your energy leaves you and everything in your life seems to lose all meaning. You gave your heart and soul to this love, and now it is no more. How can your heart ever be whole again? There is a very deep thought attributed the Mystical Rabbi of Kotzk, "there is nothing as whole as a broken heart". Although a broken heart is painful, it brings a person to turn to God. He realizes that he is ultimately alone in the world except for God who is always there to comfort him.

50 Devastating Poems about Heartbreak

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  1. 1. What's Next?

    I am going through a rough time in a 3-year relationship. We're arguing all the time. He'll leave and come back, but I can't get the anger out. The pain goes much deeper than what this poem is about.


    • By Amanda
    • Published: July 2015 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    I lie awake tonight,
    Wishing of things I can change.
    I try to convince myself,
    But it's all so strange.

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    That has so much truth: I think we all do that at times and our companions get used to it. But sometimes we push too hard and push them away. But with true love comes an unbelievable force...

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  3. 2. Mad Girl's Love Song

    Many of Sylvia Plath's poems have a theme of unrequited love, and this one is no different. She wrote this poem while she was a twenty-year-old student at Smith College. It has that very natural and relatable element of someone that age looking for love. The speaker is addressing a former lover, wishing he would return to her. Plath writes with a lot of emotion, making it clear how it feels to be rejected while still longing for someone to return feelings of love. She uses personification to give the stars and darkness human characteristics. This poem also utilizes the poetic technique of repetition.

    "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)

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  5. 3. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why

    What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
    I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
    Under my head till morning; but the rain
    Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh

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  6. 4. The Siren

    My girlfriend of a long time realized that she was still in love with her ex-boyfriend... She was wishing that I was him, and she couldn't do it anymore, so she left me to be with him...I was heartbroken and I still am...a friend told me that I should continue writing to ease the pain and help me get though it, so this is what I wrote.


    • By YoungPoet
    • Published: May 2011 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    He wrote her a song, but it never got finished
    They both fell in love, but it was soon diminished
    She sits on his bed and cries in his lap
    He cries back at her, knowing they can't go back.

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    This is absolutely unique and astonishing. I've never had a boyfriend myself, but there was someone who came very close. We were best friends, doing everything together and having the time of...

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  7. 5. He'll Never Know

    About a girl who wanted a man to love her like she loved him.


    • By Jennifer
    • Published: December 2009 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    I want to run, I want to hide
    From all the pain he caused inside.
    I want to scream, I want to cry.
    Why can't I tell him goodbye?

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    Hey Hannah. I have felt like you before. You can fall for someone so completely and they could never feel the same. Just focus on what makes you feel happy. One day you will see he won't even...

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  8. 6. A Broken Heart

    I am lost without you.


    • By Jenna
    • Published: March 2008 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    How do I mend a broken heart?
    My entire world has fallen apart.
    How do I find hope in a brand new day,
    when the one I love has gone away?

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    I am feeling this poem deep in my heart. My husband of 10 years has found someone else to love. He asked me to move out, and I have. I feel so disconnected from my life, the life I knew. I...

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  9. 7. I Tried So Hard

    I wrote this March 29, 2009. I was in a good relationship and nothing was wrong at the time, but the poem just kind of struck me. I liked the idea, so I wrote it out. Now I am no longer with this guy and am now in a relationship with a guy from my school, and we are doing very well.


    • By Whitney Barton
    • Published: December 2009 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

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    I tried so hard.
    I tried my best.
    I gave you my all,
    And now there's nothing left.

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    He was my first love We started dating while I was in high school. He was at university. We were so much in love, promising each other that we would be together forever. He taught me how to...

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  10. 8. Do You Know

    I wrote this after my husband of 10 years decided that he did not want to be a "Husband." We have a terrific 7 year old son who has been handed something that I, at 38, do not yet know how to handle. I do my very best, for my very best (my son).


    • By Michelle Boyd
    • Published: December 2009 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    Do you know a life of loneliness and one filled with pain,
    living a life with nothing to gain,
    Surrounded by darkness, overwhelmed with shame.
    A life without peace with no one to blame.

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    Well, same stuff, but I know I need to be strong for my kids! The thing that crushes me is my 6-year-old hears his dad call me a whore or say, “Mommy's just crazy, Roman." My son, now after 2...

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  11. 9. Ode To You

    For anyone wishing they hadn't left.


    • By Carl Sinclair
    • Published: May 2015 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    Every morning I see your face,
    And for that fleeting second I'm in a different place,
    A place where we smiled, laughed, and talked,
    A place where we could hold hands wherever we walked,

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    There was a boy. We were on our way to 5 months and then all of a sudden, he liked another girl. It turned out she liked him too. I wanted to be supportive. I stepped down and let them be...

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  12. 10. And The World Carries On

    • By Amy O Connor
    • Published: August 2020 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    The plates will still shift
    and the clouds will still spew.
    The sun will slowly rise
    and the moon will follow too.

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    This poem is really so good. I feel this poem; it's just amazing.

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  13. 11. The Weeping Willow

    I wrote this poem for my best friend after she and her boyfriend broke up. They were together for a year. The poem is about a girl missing someone she loves, and every time she compares herself to the Weeping Willow outside her window.

    • By Azania Willson
    • Published: December 2016 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    Last night I woke up and you weren't there.
    I told myself that I shouldn't care.
    I wrapped my arms around a pillow,
    Staring out the window at the weeping willow.

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    I have always loved the weeping willow more than any tree. I love it because it is so strong and resilient and bows with the wind rather than breaks. I promised myself that when I finally had...

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  14. 12. The Good Times Are Over

    This poem is about my girlfriend who broke up with me. Things were going really well, so it came as a surprise when she said she didn't think things would work out. This poem is about how I wish the good times I spent with her weren't over and how I wish could have more time with her even though I know I can't. This poem has three quatrains, each with an AABB rhyme scheme.

    • By Luke A. Wilks
    • Published: December 29, 2021 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    I was happiest with you
    I thought you were happy too
    Now that you left, only sadness does remain
    I can't get the thought of you out of my brain

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    I remember my first relationship. I almost threw my whole life away for this one boy, because I thought he loved me. I didn't know him; I knew only a shell of him in which he used to hide...

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  15. 13. Ebb

    In this poem, Edna St. Vincent Millay powerfully portrays the heartbreak of losing a lover. She uses a shrinking pool of water as a metaphor for the feelings of loss and heartbreak.

    I know what my heart is like
    Since your love died:
    It is like a hollow ledge
    Holding a little pool

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  16. 14. To A Young Girl

    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who lived from 1865-1936. He started out studying painting, but he found his true passion in poetry. In 1923, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this poem, we can see how love can be tricky and complicated but still full of passion.

    My dear, my dear, I know
    More than another
    What makes your heart beat so;
    Not even your own mother

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  17. 15. I Fall Back

    I wrote this poem when I was hanging on to a relationship that felt one-sided.

    • By Erin L. Kampen
    • Published: November 19, 2021 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    The hardest thing I've ever done is let you slip away
    The cut got even deeper when you had nothing to say
    The ice within your veins I thought I could defrost
    But somehow, I got swept up and my heart would be the cost

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  18. 16. Bottom Of My Heart

    Just from the bottom of my heart...

    • By Efi
    • Published: August 2009 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    Don't talk anymore, my love
    Just look at me
    and you will understand
    how I feel.

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    WOW!! This is exactly how I feel. The guy I love just fell in love with my best friend and I've been crying non-stop! This made me stop for the first time. Thank you.

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  19. 17. Heartbroken And Confused

    Having conflicting feelings in love. I dedicate this poem to the guy I wrote it about, Connor, and to my Dad, may he rest in peace.

    • By Kelsey Pitts
    • Published: January 2008 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    My heart feels like it's torn in two.
    Why can't I just be with you?
    Every day another tear,
    Every day a lot more fear.

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    I am the type of person who doesn't believe in love, but what I feel for this guy is something I have only felt for one person. I swore off love, and I don't want to fall in love with him...

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  20. 18. Hoping

    I thought I truly found happiness, like most people do, only to find out he was with someone else. I started writing him a letter, sort of a last goodbye, when I realized that I was writing a poem. Even though things didn't work out for the two of us, I feel that this poem explains exactly all I was trying to say to him. I wasn't trying to say goodbye; I was just hoping that he could feel a little bit of what I was feeling, you know, hoping for his love.

    • By Tara Ong
    • Published: August 2012 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    I write this poem for you to read,
    with heartache that will forever bleed.
    I wish things were so different.
    Sadly, this is what you've made of me.

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  21. 19. My First Love...My First Heartbreak

    I am a woman of independence. I can say that I am successful in my family, work, studies, and career, everything except in love. At the age of 24, for the first time in my life, I fell in love with someone. I thought my first love would last, but I made mistakes. I lost love because of what I am. The guy thinks I am a woman so hard to reach for....it breaks my heart and every time I think of him, I really don't know how to mend my broken heart.....worst, he's eyeing our common friend.

    • By Hydz Trinidad
    • Published: February 2009 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    I never thought I would love someone like you,
    Never in my dreams that I would meet you.
    But then, as I traveled on my life's journey,
    You walked into my life, and I fell for you.

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    When I was 19 (I'm 21 now), my first love was far away. It was a long-distance relationship. I never thought that would happen to me. We had such a great time. She was my everything. I didn't...

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  22. 20. What Now?

    I wrote this poem in a moment of grief. It felt hopeless, so I poured my heart out on paper to gain a bit of solace. The person it's written about was almost cruel and changed me quite a bit.

    • By Kerri L. Copeland
    • Published: February 13, 2022 by Family Friend Poems with the permission of the Author.

    You'll always be too hard to handle.
    I'll always be too cold to touch.
    So, that does beg the question;
    Why did I love you so much?

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