Beautiful Lonely Poems – 46 Sad Love Poems About Loneliness

Sometimes a lost romantic relationship can make us feel more lonely than when we were single. When in a relationship, we have become used to having someone with us all the time. But after a breakup, suddenly loneliness is overwhelming and engulfs us completely with a broken heart. I know how tough this must be for you, I know because I was there too, the more you try to forget is the more you remember you past — remembering the person, living the memories again and again.

Emotionally speaking, breaking up might seem to be the end of the world, it is painful as hell, more than you can imagine to bear, you might feel like you have lost everything most important, and life without that one person might seem futile, empty and not worth living for. Those were really long days with a feeling of unrelenting loneliness and the endless darkness of despair that envelops us…

But in a way, this pain and loneliness can teach you a lot of life lessons. Do not throw it away, just observe it, listen to it and learn from it. Nothing in life comes to make you weak. Every incident of life has something new to teach and has the potential to make us stronger. Instead of feeling it as a suffering, use it as an opportunity to reconnect with your soul. This little shift in perspective may be an important key to helping you look forward.

In order to help broken hearts on the road to recovery, our editorial team has prepared 46 beautiful lonely poems – the best sad love poems about loneliness for those who have just gone through a breakup. Until your heart is ready to be filled with a new love from someone who really loves you. Let’s do something you enjoy! Self-care and self-love are the best way to heal from a breakup and build up the courage to start a new relationship. Just move on! Hope you have beautiful moments on OZoFe.Com! All is the best!

1, Lonely Is Just One Word © Mary Havran

Lonely is just one word chosen to represent so much
To tell of feelings inside that the senses cannot touch

Lonely can be in the teardrops on a bereaved person’s cheek
Lonely can be in the silence of sorrows too deep to speak

Lonely can haunt a deserted room that Laughter once made proud
Lonely surrounds you when you’re alone or finds you in a crowd

Lonely is heard in echoed footsteps of a departing friend
Lonely penetrates the solitude of nights that will not end

Lonely will not listen to the pleadings of a broken heart
Lonely stays and torments until new Love shatters it apart.

2, Where Do I Go? © Lisa Griffin

Where do I go
When I’m feeling so lost and I don’t want to be found?
When I’m looking and listening for that peace in my heart.
But I know I’ll never hear that sound.
Where do I go?
Where do I go when I’m trying to laugh but all I can do I cry?
I’m trying to keep on living because I’m not ready to die.
Where do I go because the sun never seems to shine?
Can you give me my life back’ it’s not yours, it’s mine?
How do I keep going, how do I fight this fight?
I’m tired of feeling beat down, but I’m trying with all my might!
Where do I go when my head hangs so low?
Please give me an answer because I just don’t know!
Where do I go?
Does it take very long
For me to find that peace and a place where I belong?
I need you to help me, help me to take a stand.
I’m scared to do it by myself; will you please take my hand?
Where do I go? Where do I go? Where do I go?
Do you know?

3, 6 Lonely Tears © Angela Pilant

First 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.

4, Gone Forever © Dane Yule

I miss the times when you were here,
Telling me to have no fear.
To hold my head up high and strong,
Add happy notes to my sad song.

I miss the way you look at me
As if I were too blind to see.
The path I’m on might hurt and scathe,
But all goes well if you just have faith.

I miss the sound of your sweet voice,
Through bitter times a saving noise
That told me what was right and wrong
But rang in my ears for far too long.

A caring person, you were such
Who helped and hurt me, oh so much.
You’d guide and mislead me through the day
You left me lonely when I’d rather you stay.

Over things like that you had no control.
A rock set in motion will continue to roll.
No matter how hard you tug and heave,
You were always pushed and forced to leave.

Then one day you never returned,
My tears so hot they almost burned.
Aware now about what I lack,
But crying and mourning won’t bring you back.

For me to let out what I need to say.
I can’t do much more than pray.
No longer am I weak; my heart’s quite strong
From adding a happy chorus to a sad, sad song.

5, Sometimes I Get Lonely © Emily B

Sometimes 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…

6, The Stars Above © Emily

Orange and Pink shoot across the sky,
I can see it from where I lie,
The sun is setting, going to sleep,
The dark surrounds, like the ocean deep,

The stars come, twinkling lights,
Glittering diamonds, What a sight,
I lie in the grass and up I stare,
My body goes numb as I forget all my cares

I like to gaze up at the stars,
So I can forget my cares and all my scars,

I have no one to look after me,
The real me is someone no one can see,
So I’ll wait until I find some sort of love,
And until then it’s just me and the stars above.

7, A Dream Girl © Carl Sandburg

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.

8, Are You Lonely Tonight? © Jeff Fleischer

Are you lonely tonight
Because your heart was broken?
Are you lonely tonight,
Shedding tears from all the emotion?
Please don’t be shy.
Just tell me if its okay for me to dropp by.
I’ll be the man you’ve always dreamed of.
I’ll hold you close to me and show you love.
I’ll help you through your pain and sorrow.
And after you wake up tomorrow,
We’ll take a walk near the ocean shore.
As time goes by, I’ll love you more and more.

9, Kiss My Soul, Heal My Heart © Avi Fleischer

I’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.

10, What Is Love? © Ronita Lee

What is love
and why does love never find me?
Instead, broken hearts surround me,
And once again the wrong man found me,
saying he wouldn’t hurt me,
but in the end he didn’t deserve me
What is love
and why doesn’t love know my name?
I prayed to God that it would change,
but true love never came.
What is love?
I ask myself time after time.
Why is love so blind?
or I shouldn’t waste my time.
I guess broken hearts are only made for me,
because love finds everyone else but love never found me…

11, On Tears Lonely Lonely Cry © Maria Sudibyo

On tears lonely lonely cry
You always shade on my mind
Even you had flied away
Left me alone in the night

On tears lonely lonely cry
No one can take that place
My first love you have to know
You’ve never gone in my heart

Oh why, oh why
I can’t forget your kiss goodbye
I want crying to you
Bring this pain from my life

On tears lonely lonely cry
My first love you have to know
The memory was closed
In my broken lonely heart.

12, Thinking Of You © Philicia A. Talamantes

I’m sitting here staring at the stars, thinking of you!
I feel so alone when you’re not around,
It feel’s as if the walls are coming down.
I close my eyes, and you’re here.
I see your face, feel your touch, and taste your kiss.
I’m constantly thinking of you.
When something goes wrong, and I’m down,
Thinking of you always brings me around.
When you’re gone, my world disappears.
Though thinking of you make’s me glad,
Being away from you makes me sad!
I’m thinking of you.
If you ever feeling alone just call on me I’ll be home.
I miss you so much I can’t bear the pain,
I only have myself to blame.
You’re the best guy I ever known,
I only wish I could have you for my own.
You stole my heart from the beginning,
Now you’re leaving. I’m thinking of you.
I’m so lucky to have you in my life.
I wish you could always be by my side.
Because you need to know.
You’ll always have a place here with me
From now till eternity.
I’m lying in bed
Thought’s of you spinning through my head.
And in the bottom of my heart
we will never be apart.

13, Butterfly © Crystal R. Kordell

I was sitting on the bench in the park one day,
And saw a butterfly coming my way.
I opened my hand, and to my surprise,
the butterfly landed; consumed in cries.
I asked the little one,
“What is wrong?”
and then the little one began to sing me a song,
“The sky is dark and my days are grey, and there’s nobody here to lift the
clouds away.”
I sat there quietly for a moment or two and then I had decided what to do.
I looked at that butterfly that was consumed in cries,
and told her promptly, “I tell no lies.
Your skies are dark and days are grey because you have no love to light your way.”
The butterfly finally stopped her crying,
opened her wings and went off flying,
I sat on that bench until it was dark,
and then I finally left the park.
day after day had long since passed,
I thought I’d seen that butterfly for the last,
and then on a nice and sunny day,
I heard a little voice say to me, “Hey.”
I turned around, and to my surprise, there she was with her 3 little butterflies.
I stared in awe as she spoke to me.
She said to me, “You’ve set me free,
you’ve lifted the dark from the skies, and now I see no grey through my eyes,
I want to thank you for all you’ve done, and to let you know that you’re our number 1.”
And after that she flew away,
and I haven’t seen her since that day,
but now that I know her troubles are done,
I continue walk in the warm summer sun.

14, Waiting © Annette R. Hershey

Imagine 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.

15, Why? © Carla Peters

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.

16, Should Have Told You I Loved You © Samantha Ganley

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.

17, Waiting For Love © Liz

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.

18, Words Unspoken © Day

It’s been 2 months since you left
And I think about you everyday,
Whenever I get lonely
I remember what you use to say

Never have I loved someone
As much as I love you
And even though you hurt me
My feelings will always remain true

I have so much to ask you
So much I want to say
Why did you leave me?
Why did things end up this way?

I think back to the last day I saw you
And the hurt that was in your eyes
I never once thought
That, would be our goodbyes

If there was anything I could take back
It would be the lonely nights
And my selfish ways
And maybe instead of writing this I would be holding you tight

19, The Kiss © Sara Teasdale

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.

20, Sonnet XXX: Love is Not All © Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

21, Tears Of Love © Candace

Tears of pain run down my cheek,
wishing I was able to hold the one I seek.

Tears from my heart I cry,
left out here alone to die.

Tears I cry from the soul,
wishing my heart was once again whole.

Tasting the tears,
trying to wipe away the fears.

Wondering if I will ever be able to hold the one I love,
wondering if someone will help me from above.

I can’t take this anymore, you’ve won,
Tears run down my cheek, as I hold this gun.

22, Rain On Me © Gia R. Davis

We 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.

23, Illusion Of A Fantasy © Ice Vixen

Where 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.

24, Alone © Mariana

He once again has forgotten me.
Many unreasonably long hours pass,
And I am still alone,
Not one word heard.

Worn out and blue I feel.
Haven’t done much but still exhausted.
My thoughts belonging to him
Have distracted me throughout the day.

But like always,
Great times don’t seem to last.
One day love, hugs, and kiss.
Promises to always be there.

The next abandoned.
Tight burning words in my throat,
Waiting, a lot more patiently,
to be burst out.

I HATE YOU!
It is what I want to scream.
I MISS YOU!
Is what my heart yells.

Such pain is
My punishment
For falling into loves wings.
I am such a fool.

Such torture is
My prize
For falling into his arms.
I am only blind.

25, Wondering © Paige L. Barense

I was looking at the moon
Wondering if you were too,
I was looking at the stars,
Wondering if you were too,
I was looking at some pictures,
Wondering if you missed me,
I was looking in the mirror,
Wondering if you would come back,
I was wondering if you would choose her over me,
I was wondering if you knew who I was,
I was wondering if I knew who you still are,
I was wondering if you knew you betrayed us,
I love you, but now I am wondering if I still do?

26, A Valentine’s Wish © Jamie K. Johnson

Have you ever set your heart on someone
Though you didn’t stand a chance?
Have you ever wished that someone
Would think the way you do?
Have you ever fallen in love with someone
Who didn’t love you too?
Have you ever tried to explain to them
The feelings in your heart,
Only to hear a response
That tears your heart apart?
Have you ever spent so much time with someone,
Even though it hurts inside?
Have you ever tried to save a friendship
By having your feelings hide?
Have you ever wanted that friendly hug to turn into a kiss?
Have you ever wished your heart would stop wishing
For those things that won’t come true?
Have you ever wished that that someone would try to love you too?

27, Out Of Reality © Michaela Tatualla

I don’t know how it came to be,
that I love someone like you.
I know you’re out of reality,
But my love for you is true.

I know that you are just a dream,
Never will be true.
But you put my life out of glum,
And in my heart there is you.

Loving you is like chasing rainbows,
Beneath the pale blue sky.
I don’t know how it goes,
And I really wonder why.

I tried so hard to keep this feeling,
Cause loving you completes me.
I just hope it will not reach an ending,
Cause it will lead me to tragedy.

28, Take My Hand © Alokin Hokman

I 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 at 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.

29, The Weathering Of Love © Quinn

I’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.

30, Loneliness And Care © Shishir

I 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

31, Lost From You © Sami Chester

I reached for you
But I couldn’t find you
I called for you
But you didn’t answer
I trusted you
But you didn’t care
‘Cause when I looked
You weren’t there

I searched up high
And I searched down low
But I don’t get it
Where’d you go?

You had always been there
Oh, so near
When I looked
You’d disappeared

Now my chest is getting tighter
I’ll drown in tears for sure
It’s getting hard to breathe
My heart aches more than pure

I wish that you could see me
And what you’ve put me through
So that way in the future
You’ll treat the next girl true

32, I’m Getting Lonely © Skylar

It’s getting cold and I’m getting lonely
Wishing someone would sit down and hold me
Next to their chest in their arms
Our body heats the only thing keeping up warm
In his car on a Friday night
Nothing but trees by the moonlight
Well, maybe I’ll stay here forever
In my dreams forever
Wishing we could be here together
Just me and you
Just me and you
Well, I’m smiling now to myself
It’s just me by myself
In my bed with the covers on just turned over to set the alarm
Cause this isn’t an imaginary place
It’s unfair, but it’s a fact we have to face
But maybe I’ll stay in my dreams forever
Wishing we could be here together
Just me and you
Just me and you

33, Dear Diary © Ralph P Quinonez

Dear 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.

34, Lone Gentleman © Pablo Neruda

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.

35, I Am Lonely © Chantel Braatz

I am lonely everyday
as I watch the world
pass my way.

I am lonely in my room
as I stare at the walls
and been thinking of you.

I am lonely outside
as I see you
passing me by.

I am lonely inside
as I see that day
you had died.

36, Why Can’t He Love Me © Adriann Blair

Why can’t he see what I see,
Why can’t he read what I read,
Why can’t he love how I love,
Why don’t he want me by his side,
Why can’t he see that I need him.

I laugh at his crazy jokes
I cry when he cries
I’m there when no one else is there for him
I do what I need to, to make him smile
So why can’t he

37, Waiting For Your Return © Charlene Khuah

never 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.

38, Wants To Needs © Tegan

What I want,
it doesn’t come by
working hard.
It comes so naturally,
or at is supposed to at least.
I would work so hard,
if only I had it.
But it doesn’t help.
It’s what everyone else has,
it’s so irresistible, but
it should come with a warning label.
It seems close,
so close,
I can smell it,
I can hear it,
I can taste it,
I can even see it, but
I can’t touch it.
It’s just out of reach.
But it’s not for me.
It never has been
never will be.
Maybe to some extent,
but not like that.
But I want it so badly,
it become a necessity.

39, Can You? © Katie T

Can you just snap and the person you want gone, disappear?
Can you find a way through every problem without shedding a tear?
Can you hate a person that you hold so dear?
Can you find the one you love and have him seem be too good to be real?
All the above is way too hard to be doing it on your own.
And when no one is around to help you out and pick your feet off the ground, you end up spending your nights crying, in your room all alone.
Wishing someone was holding you tight but he’s not here tonight.

40, Missing Love © Kasi C

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.

41, Feeling Lonely © Nkosana Dlibani Jwara Ngomane

My heart is empty
But it feels heavy
This can’t be healthy
Love used to be heavenly
How can it be heavy
When it’s totally empty

I know things can be strangely
But this is more than scary
Or am I just crazy
To be in love this madly
How did it all get this badly
It’s sad to be lonely

I’m in this deep pain
But I don’t feel insane
I have a lot to say
Starting with
I wish you could stay
Ending with
I’m not in your life to play
Wish I could get a reply
To what I just said
Cause it makes me sad

How could love feel like this
What kind of love is this
Does love really get like this
I never asked for all this
Oh my love is just a bliss

My heart is empty
But it feels heavy
This can’t be healthy
Love used to be heavenly
How can it be heavy
When it’s totally empty

I know things can be strangely
But this is more than scary
Or am I just crazy
To be in love this madly
How did it all get this badly
It’s sad to be lonely

42, Love Impersonated © Cindy Rossouw

Love lied and trapped my soul
With just one kiss
To make me whole

A promise into forever
Faked an almost perfect life
Love’s tight grip on to “never”

Every other lonely night
Love’s insecure heart
Begging a fearful fight

Gave it more than I got
Did not seem to matter
Love showed me what it’s not

Haughty eyes, forgive, distrust
Dirty hands touched my soul
Seems love thrives only on lust

I bring you pride, you bring shame
I don’t know what you want anymore
But here love has no fame

God, come take me away!
The sacrifice and sinner’s debt
Lying love wanted me to pay

There must be so much more
Real love should be nothing
…I’ve ever met before

43, Lonely Love © Lwando Stephula

I am so scared of love
The idea of being in love, alone
Leaves butterflies in my stomach
Why do I feel this way?
Why can’t I have the courage to love?
I always have the problem of committing myself to love
Because of this my heart dips so much in pain
I am so confused and frustrated
I often cry a lot in front of a mirror
Hoping to see blood dropping from my eyes
But all I see is a blind-folded abondoned in love pervert
I always wipe the tears I cried with my hands
And tell myself that this too shall pass
I will never give up.

44, For What I Am © William Thomas Fearby

Lonely is this heart
That beats inside of me
Wandering lost and lonely
Cast out on the raging sea

With no one there to help Me
I drift further every day
To a land of indecision
A land so distant and far away

Lost in a time and place
That no one else can see
Floating aimlessly alone
On the stormy sea of tranquility

Tossed on to the jagged rocks
Left battered and bruised
Feelings of frustration
From constantly being used

My life is such a mess
Trying desperately hard to survive
Searching so hard to find
A good reason to want to stay alive

Loneliness is closing down
It’s walls all around me
I am struggling hard to breathe
Trying hard to break free

Lost in a world of confusion
No way of getting out
My life is full of bad decisions
Anger and self doubt

I need someone to love me
And take me for what I am
Or am I destined to die lonely
Like the sacrificial lamb

45, Unrequited Love © William Thomas Fearby

I cried to many times in my lonely room alone
I have done too many things no one can condone
I have made so many mistakes I am not proud of
The only thing I can’t live without is your precious love

I would move a mountain just to lie down by your side
I have so many feelings for you I am forced to hide
How can I tell you how much you mean to me
How I wish that both of our lives were both free

I was the best man at your wedding I should have let you know
That I loved you more than him and that I couldn’t let you go
But I couldn’t bring myself to do it it would break his heart in two
I would give up everything I own just to be with you

But I know that everything we had is slowly falling apart
Unrequited love can only lead to a badly broken heart
I tried so hard to tell you how much I love you so
I was afraid if I told you that I would have to go

I couldn’t live without you my life would fall apart
The best way is to move away and make a new start
I can’t hang around and watch you kissing him anymore
Every time I see you touching him it makes my heart bleed more

You probably don’t understand how I’m feeling right now
I know if I tell you how I feel it will cause a massive row
I can’t go on living this way it’s breaking me up inside
I have got so many hang ups I can no longer hide

I know I must try and forget you and move on with my life
Trust me the fool I am to fall in love with another mans wife
I know it won’t be easy living without you but I have to move on
I only hope you think about me and miss me when I am gone

46, You Đon’t Love Me © William Thomas Fearby

Why am I being foolish
Why am I not able to see
You don’t really love me
It’s just part of my fantasy

I guess I think I’m something
That obviously I am not
When I look at my sorry life
It doesn’t amount to a lot

I’m just a lonely sad individual
Plagued by my chequered past
Every time I think I have found someone
It starts to fade away real fast

Pretty soon I am left with
Only loneliness left in my life
I seem to be an unfortunate person
All I ever attract is strife

Everybody wants to be your friend
But very few ever stick around
When you really need someone
They are nowhere to be found

So maybe I should give up
On my hopes and aspirations now
I have tried so hard to make things work
But I really don’t know how

I need to rethink about my life
Before my life spins out of control
I can feel a deep depression coming
Dragging me down a big black hole

Indecision seems to feed on my psyche
Deep inside my heart and soul
Tearing my confidence to pieces
Making it impossible to reach my goal

So I guess I should give up looking
For that perfect soul mate
Every time I fall deeply in love
It always turns into pity and hate

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