Lonely Poems
Poems about Loneliness
After a breakup, there is a great feeling of loneliness that overcomes us. For so long, we felt that we were a part of something bigger than ourselves. Suddenly we are left with the realization that we no longer have another to lean on. The loneliness is overwhelming. We have become used to having someone with us all the time. We probably made all our decisions together. To suddenly be alone after intense togetherness is a very lonely feeling.
37 Sad Love Poems about Loneliness
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1. Soul Mates
Trying To Find Your Soul MateI searched but never found you.
The paths we traveled never crossed
And now my life is winding down,
And I fear all hope is lost.
I saved a place inside my heart.
You were often in my dreams.
But you stayed always at a distance
And just beyond my reach.
I wondered if you grieved for me
And felt that longing deep inside.
Did you search the world for me in vain?
Or did you let that need subside?
Oh, I had my share of love and loss.
I knew happiness and pain.
I loved and was loved in return
But that emptiness remained.
I missed you though we never touched,
And I knew you from the start.
Your soul was mate to my own soul.
You shared the beating of my heart.
Time passed, but still you never came,
Though I never let you go.
You were a gift that I was promised,
The greatest love I'd ever know.
I wondered if our eyes once met,
But we chose to look away
And settled on some other loves
And thus our destinies betray.
This life is cruel and fickle.
It can lead our hearts astray
And blind us to what matters,
Putting roadblocks in our way.
Our searching becomes futile
When distractions take control.
We can't hear the pleading of our hearts
Or the desperation in our souls.
But you and I were meant to be,
Our souls met long ago.
So when the time is right for us,
Somehow, we both will know.
And maybe up in Heaven
Our souls will finally meet
And we'll share our love eternally
And forevermore we'll feel complete. -
2. Love Is Not All
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would. -
3. Take My Hand
Chasing After Unrequited LoveI thought that I was chasing dreams
While I was walking down those fast streams.
Chasing after love that will never be,
Now I am left stranded in the deep open sea.
Will I ever find a way back to the shore?
All that I ask for is nothing more,
Just someone who can gently take my hand
And walk with me on the soft beach sand.Latest Shared StoryVery nice, Alokin. I think virtually everyone can identify with this as most of us have had a similar disappointment in our past, some even in the present I am sure. I was given good advice...
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4. Kiss My Soul, Heal My Heart
Love, Betrayal, And HeartbreakI'm sitting here alone, my thoughts within the past,
Thinking about you, a love I hoped would last.
Your warm and tender heart that seems so far away,
This yearning deep inside me that I must obey.
Please don't leave me here alone; you must understand
That a lost love is like footsteps in the sand.
So, kiss my soul just one more time; that's all I ask of you.
And heal my heart that aches for you, as only you can do.
The truth is all I want to know; I seek it in your eyes,
But the only thing I see is that the truth is full of lies.
Hold me now; I feel my soul slowly fade away.
Let me know you love me too; your heart I won't betray.
Please don't leave me here alone; you must understand
That a lost love is like footsteps in the sand.
So, kiss my soul just one more time; that's all I ask of you.
And heal my heart that aches for you, as only you can do.
There is no place for me without you by my side.
A world without your love, the pain how can I hide?
I want to taste your lips, to feel your body rush,
And like a starving man, I hunger for your touch.
Please don't leave me here alone; you must understand
That a lost love is like footsteps in the sand.
So, kiss my soul just one more time; that's all I ask of you.
And heal my heart that aches for you, as only you can do.Latest Shared StoryHello, your poetry is so powerful. You put into words exactly what I struggle to convey. I've been living in Michigan since childhood, and there's a girl whose apartment I lived near. For...
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5. The Weathering Of Love
Poem About Longing For LoveI'm sorry I love you as more than a friend,
But the love that I have doesn't come to an end.
You dwell in my thoughts, and to my mind I will keep
A love that's for you, a love I hide deep
Your word has the power to tear me to shreds,
But my heart is what sinks, a feeling of dread.
The sight of you brings me down to my knees,
The slightest of touches, as strong as a breeze,
A breeze of love stale and cold,
For it is not to me that your heart has been sold. -
6. Waiting
Poem About Waiting For The One You LoveImagine the sun sinking
and dim turns to dark.
The silence that surrounds you,
the shadows that make their mark.
You wander around aimlessly,
too much time can be total hell.
Your heart hardened from waiting,
breaks with the bong of the clock's bell.
The clouds, they mask the moonlight,
The mirror, it mimics your pain.
You sit and sigh and close your eyes
and hear the repetition of the rain.
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7. Dear Diary
Healing From A Break-UpDear Diary,
As I make my entry today, again I cry.
Never thought this love would be so complicated,
Never thought that life would be so cold.
I think about him every day,
Knowing he will never return to me.
My life would have been so complete with him,
Now I have to live a life without him.
Oh, what a lonely and empty life I have been given.
My life consists of only memories of him
And what our life could have played out to be.
Each day I go back to you, my diary,
And write my deepest thoughts on your pages.
Each day I go out into the world and know that nothing is going to change.
The only change that can happen is the change inside my heart.
I need to deal with the pain and the loss and move forward in my life.
The love I had was a gift,
And I need to place this in your pages, my dear diary.
My heart will one day heal,
My mind will one day live again.
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8. Rain On Me
Poem About Wanting LoveWe all want the same love
That we are afraid to give.
To be loved by someone,
That is one of life's greatest gifts.
But to love someone
Is a risk of both heartache and pain,
So we'd rather just sit
And watch the rain.Latest Shared StoryI understand the feeling. The very longing dreams to have our dearest love by our side. It was so intense that we sometimes always fail to stop the feeling of wanting someone to love us in a...
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9. Loneliness And Care
Poem About Needing Support During Times Of LonelinessI am fighting a battle of loneliness and disrespect.
My pain with relations has reached its crest.
You gave me peace at the time of this war.
I wish to move along with you in life very far.
A thousand flowers bloom when you are around.
My heart fills with joy on hearing your sound.
For me, you are just like a precious gift of God,
As all in this world happens only with His nod. -
10. 6 Lonely Tears
Poem About Crying Yourself To SleepFirst I shed a single tear because we are apart,
wanting nothing but to be with you,
to make a brand new start
The 2nd tear I shed is a lonely tear indeed.
My mind goes wild, my body goes numb,
and my heart begins to bleed.
The 3rd tear I cry wanting to feel your touch,
to taste your kiss and lips on mine,
I want so very much.
The 4th tear I cry thinking of you at night,
wanting you to hold me
as I grip my pillow tight.
The 5th tear I cry stains my pillowcase.
My mind drifts off in la la land
as I take us to that place.
The 6th tear I shed my thoughts go very deep,
simply dream of me and you
as I drift off fast to sleep.Latest Shared StoryWe’ve been best friends since like 5 years ago when we were so young. We shared moments together, and we completely understood each other. As days passed by, was naturally cared for each...
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11. Sometimes I Get Lonely
Poem About Waiting For The Phone To RingSometimes I get lonely
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
Always connecting but not connected
Sometimes I get lonely
Looking to the future
Forgetting to be in the present
Sometimes I get lonely
Thinking someday, one day
Never thinking right here, right now
Sometimes I get lonely
Phone's on, WiFi's up
Waiting for it to buzz
Sometimes I get lonely
Just waiting...
Always waiting...Latest Shared StoryBefore Covid hit, I was very happy living my 11-year-old life, but when it did, well I felt very lonely. I relate to this poem so much because everything described (and more) is exactly how I...
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12. Should Have Told You I Loved You
You said you didn't love me.
You said you didn't care.
You said I wasn't worth it,
And then you gave me a stupid stare.
I told you that was fine.
I told you I didn't mind.
I told you I wasn't upset,
And with that you left me behind.
Now I think about what happened
As I cry myself to sleep.
I tell myself that I'll be fine
And that I shouldn't have to weep.
I tell my family I am happy.
I tell my friends I'm OK.
But what I really am feeling
Inside of me is starting to go grey.
I should have told you I loved you.
I should have told you to stay.
But you said you didn't want to anymore,
And you turned away.
Now as we talk,
We joke, laugh, and play.
You think I've moved on,
While inside of me I am screaming, "STAY!"
You said you didn't love me.
I said I didn't care.
As I think about and regret it,
I know what we have we don't share.Latest Shared StoryI'm a junior, but this happened in my freshman-sophomore years. I became friends with a strange but well-known jock. He was kinda considered a class smarty pants. Within three months of our...
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13. Missing Love
I miss the ways,
The ways that captivated my heart.
How your beautiful eyes,
Would look through mine.
And discovered more,
More than what I thought I could be.
The way your kiss...
Your kiss would tingle my lips.
Travel to my feet,
Then completely surround me.
Twirling with your arms holding me tight,
While we danced into the light.
Gracefully sliding across the rooms,
As if we were the only two.
Soaring without wings,
Just hand in hand.
Feet still planted,
But hearts so alight.
And mesmerizizing my soul,
I miss the ways.
Upon the chest,
The chest of my lover.
Lying in the night,
Not scared or alone.
The passions of the nights,
Rolling as thunder.
No more two but becoming one,
Under the covers.
The endless hopes,
And heartfelt dreams.
Of you and me,
Becoming we.
The nervous fears of lovers,
Not two but becoming three.
Joining the happiness,
Of fathers and mothers.
I miss those ways,
But not this.
An unborn stolen,
By the foul clutches of night.
Because of the loss,
The missing and the fight.
I do not miss this,
Not one bit.
Fearful and scared.
Tears all alone.
The evils of this world,
We have been shown.
Cruel and painful,
And still cry "Why".
My sorrow drowns me,
As I fight to stay above.
I need a hand,
I need your hug.
I can't fill this void,
Inside deep in my heart.
This wanting consuming,
Consuming my soul.
Half alive,
Not wanting to breath.
Half dead,
Not wanting to go.
But the show has ended,
A tearful audience.
I only wish that we weren't the ones,
Playing the lead rolls. -
14. Illusion Of A Fantasy
Poem About Does Love ExistsWhere do I go, which way do I turn
searching for that love I so desperatly yearn
fading memories of a past I'd soon forget
isolated and alone waiting for the one not met.
Is he just a vision or does he really exist
illision of a fantasy like a ship in the mist
the truth of it all remains to be seen
for in this moment of time I can only dream.
Laying awake I stare into the night
doom and dread surround, like the demons I fight
river of emotions flow like a swift moving tide
spiraling so fast downward I slide.
Will ever I find that peace, I do not know
breaking down more with each passing blow
desperation and pain a part of everyday life
words not spoken that cut like a knife.Latest Shared StoryI just quit a job that I hated. I live in a part of the country that is almost dead, no jobs. I am married to a wonderful man, but he cannot afford to pay my bills, vehicle and insurance. I...
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15. A Dream Girl
You will come one day in a waver of love,
Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
The tan of the sun will be on your skin,
The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech,
You will pose with a hill-flower grace.
You will come, with your slim, expressive arms,
A poise of the head no sculptor has caught
And nuances spoken with shoulder and neck,
Your face in pass-and-repass of moods
As many as skies in delicate change
Of cloud and blue and flimmering sun.
Yet,
You may not come, O girl of a dream,
We may but pass as the world goes by
And take from a look of eyes into eyes,
A film of hope and a memoried day. -
16. Why?
Why Don't You Love Me?Why do you tear me down
When all I do is build you up?
Why do you hate me so much?
Why do you deny my touch?
Is drinking that important
and family so expendable?
You call me names
and tell me I'm the one to blame.
It's all my fault.
I deserve a verbal assault.
Not a bruise on my body,
only scars on my soul.
I am alone.
I am scared.
I'd be better on my own.
What happened to the love we shared?
I am fat, a slut, a whore, a liar,
when all I am is a crier.
You say I'm not faithful,
but it's our relationship that's not stable.
I don't deserve this.
I am a good person.
Let's try a kiss
to release my burden.
When will you stop?
Stop the drunken arguments that mean nothing.
I am tired, I am wore out, I can't go on
knowing I am not on top.
I want to mean more than a liquid you pour down your throat,
the one that drives people away from you.
Does it mean that much to you
that you have to see all you can lose before something means more?
I love you with all my heart and soul,
But I am tired -
tired of being put last
when you are so wired.
You have to know my every move,
but what do you do for me?
I don't ask much,
just asking for you to improve.Latest Shared StoryWhen I read this, I thought I wrote it myself. I have been with my husband going on 6 years. He would drink and come home mad. Sometimes I thought, "This man that I fell in love with is no...
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17. Lone Gentleman
The gay young men and the love-sick girls,
and the abandoned widows suffering in sleepless delirium,
and the young pregnant wives of thirty hours,
and the raucous cats that cruise my garden in the shadows,
like a necklace of pulsating oysters of sex
surround my lonely residence,
like enemies lined up against my soul,
like conspirators in bedroom clothes
who exchange long deep kisses to order.
The radiant summer leads to lovers
in predictable melancholic regiments,
made of fat and skinny, sad and happy pairings:
under the elegant coconut palms, near the ocean and the moon,
goes an endless movement of trousers and dresses,
a whisper of silk stockings being caressed,
and womens breasts that sparkle like eyes.
The little employee, after it all,
after the weeks boredom, and novels read by night in bed,
has definitively seduced the girl next door,
and carried her away to a run-down movie house
where the heroes are studs or princes mad with passion,
and strokes her legs covered with soft down
with his moist and ardent hands that smell of cigarettes.
The seducers afternoons and married peoples nights
come together like the sheets and bury me,
and the hours after lunch when the young male students
and the young girl students, and the priests, masturbate,
and the creatures fornicate outright,
and the bees smell of blood, and the flies madly buzz,
and boy and girl cousins play oddly together,
and doctors stare in fury at the young patients husband,
and the morning hours in which the professor, as if to pass the time,
performs his marriage duties, and breakfasts,
and moreover, the adulterers, who love each other truly
on beds as high and deep as ocean liners:
finally, eternally surrounding me
is a gigantic forest breathing and tangled
with gigantic flowers like mouths with teeth
and black roots in the shape of hooves and shoes. -
18. The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a stricken bird
That cannot reach the south.
For though I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.Latest Shared StoryYes! Been there! It kinda takes away from the romance. It might be best to keep trying to fly south.
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19. Waiting For Love
I can feel you near so I turn around,
There you stand with the smile I love.
My heart is beating rapidly now as I look into your eyes.
I reach out my hand but you hesitate.
I read your eyes saying, "I'm sorry, we have to wait."
I Keep my hand out hoping you'll take it.
Still your eyes say it's too soon.
It's been only three months since your last relationship ended.
I walk to you and put my right hand on your chest, feel your heartbeat against my palm.
My heart aches and my stomach turns into a knot.
I feel your pain so fresh and want to take it away.
You take my hand and press it between yours. I see your eyes say, "Soon I will hurt no more."
I smile and my eyes light up.
You smile back and look straight through my soul.
Your left hand reaches up and cups my right cheek.
Your thumb makes circular motions as you smile and look into my eyes.
I close my eyes, begin to lean forward.
Your right hand moves to my left cheek and you say, "Open your eyes, Liz."
I look at you confused and begin to step back.
Your hands move to my shoulders and hold me in place.
My bottom lip quivers and tears well in my eyes.
You pull me close and hug me tight, "Shh, shh, don't cry."
I am hurting and want to bawl. I hear you say, "I promise we will kiss someday."
I lift myself from your loving arms and nod in understanding.
"I know you will heal soon. I will wait until you do.
Just remember I am here for you whenever or whatever you need me for."
You nod your head.
We hug once again and it's time for us to temporarily part.
My heart and stomach ache because I know I'll miss you horribly.
So here I am just waiting for that day when I finally hear you say, "Will you be mine? My one and only?"
I will shout, "YES!" and feel the joy my heart needs so desperately.
When that day comes I will be yours and you will be mine.
Until that day an emptiness remains that only you can fill.Latest Shared StoryMy forever love, we have been apart for 5 years. When we see each other, the love is still there. You touch me, and I smile. You look into my eyes, and my heart beats faster. A tear falls...
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20. Waiting For Your Return
Poem About Waiting For Boyfriend In Jailnever did you tell me
you were leaving me.
left me in one month,
waited for months.
alone sitting in this room,
so dark.
so alone.
crying my heart out
while waiting,
waiting for your return.
hoping you could feel
the tears that come down,
hoping you could see
my shattered heart.
sewing every piece back
never leaving me
without telling me
once more.
hoping for your quick return,
bringing us back together
once more.
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